Definitions for: Impoverishment


[n] the act of making someone poor
[n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions



Webster (1913) Definition: Im*pov"er*ish*ment, n. [Cf. OF.
empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.]
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished;
reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.

Synonyms: pauperisation, pauperization, poorness, poverty

Antonyms: wealth, wealthiness

See Also: beggary, deprivation, deprivation, destitution, economic condition, financial condition, impecuniousness, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, privation, want

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