Impoverish

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary · Matthew George Easton, Noah Webster

Impoverish - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

IMPOV'ERISH, v.t.

1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence. Idleness and vice are sure to impoverish individuals and families.

2. To exhaust strength, richness or fertility; as, to impoverish land by frequent cropping.

Source of the article

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

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