Associations to the word «Impoverishment»

Wiktionary

IMPOVERISHMENT, noun. The action of impoverishing someone.
IMPOVERISHMENT, noun. The state of being impoverished.

Dictionary definition

IMPOVERISHMENT, noun. The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions.
IMPOVERISHMENT, noun. The act of making someone poor.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky