impoverishing is to make someone or something very poor. When you impoverish a land, you make it so that it can no longer support a lot of people.
The land was impoverishing because it was being used for agriculture instead of being protected.
The company is impoverishing the workforce by giving them low wages.
verb
To make poor.
verb
To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.
verb
To become poor.
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The dissolution left the village impoverished.
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The mammal fauna of the reserve is impoverished.
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For some it is in solidarity with the impoverished around the world.
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For some, it is in solidarity with the impoverished around the world.
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Richardson was born in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, into impoverished gentility.
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She said it would impoverish our state.
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The consequences of his disaffection further impoverished the family.
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Treaties were not meant to impoverish our people.
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It is the highest village in the once extremely remote and impoverished valley.
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At the same time most of the former slaves were uneducated and impoverished.