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To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

One who, or that which, impoverishes.

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty. Sir W. Scott.

To make bankrupt; to bring financial ruin upon; to impoverish.

To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself. Milton.

A condition of ill health and impairment of nutrition due to impoverishment of the blood, esp. when caused by a specific morbid process (as cancer or tubercle).

To make poor; to impoverish. Liming does not depauperate; the ground will last long, and bear large grain. Mortimer. Humility of mind which depauperates the spirit. Jer. Taylor.

See Impoverish.

To impoverish. [Obs.]

earing in certain verbs of French origin; as, abolish, cherish, finish, furnish, garnish, impoverish.

tails. It is probably a parable of a local contest between Kilkenny and Irishtown, which impoverished both towns.

A gift; a gratuity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, a prudent man is not impoverished by his liberalities.

Equal, or nearly equal; as, fields of like extent. More clergymen were impoverished by the late war than ever in the like space before. Sprat.

Possessing only small coins; impoverished. [R.] Lamb.

ution by a man of gifts to his own and neighboring tribesmen, often, formerly, to his own impoverishment. Feasting, dancing, and public ceremonies accompany it.

To harass or afflict severely. To scourge and impoverish the people. Brougham.

A condition of impoverishment of the blood; a morbid state in which the red corpuscles, or other important elements of the blood, are deficient.

Of or pertaining to spanæmia; having impoverished blood.

The act of plundering; robbery; deprivation; despoliation. Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder. Sir G. C. Lewis.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility. [R.] "Sterilizing the earth." Woodward.