impoverishment
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- n the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
- n the act of making someone poor
- Not only has it caused impoverishment, corruption and suffering, but military dictatorships of the right have also given rise to antidemocratic movements of the far left, which .
- The result could be a virtual genocide of much of the animal world and an irreversible impoverishment of our planet.
- A Pencil In the Hand Of God Mother Teresa sees poverty as a kind of richness -- and richness as impoverishment -- as she cares for the dying and unwanted of Calcutta.