impoverish
im pov rish
- v make poor
- v take away
- The trend toward joint custody can also impoverish an ex-wife, since the father puts his money toward maintaining a separate household for the kids, not toward supporting hers.
- What happens to the hope of a single child anywhere can enrich our world, or impoverish it.
- He proved, inasmuch as it can be proved, that free markets would not impoverish the poor but enrich them, would not ride roughshod over the downtrodden but would empower them.