Associations to the word «Impoverished»

Wiktionary

IMPOVERISHED, adjective. Reduced to poverty.
IMPOVERISHED, adjective. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
IMPOVERISHED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of impoverish

Dictionary definition

IMPOVERISHED, adjective. Poor enough to need help from others.
IMPOVERISHED, adjective. Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family".

Wise words

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley