英和和英

発音

• IPA: /ɪmˈpɒv(ə)ɹɪʃ/

動詞

impoverish (third-person singular simple present impoverishes, present participle impoverishing, simple past and past participle impoverished)

1. (transitive) To make poor.

   Synonyms: empoverish, immiserate, poor (rare), ruin; see also Thesaurus:impoverish

   Antonym: enrich

2. (transitive) To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness.

   Synonym: deplete

   That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil.

   • 1979 December 22, Nancy Walker, “The Reaffirmation of Life”, in Gay Community News, volume 2, number 22, page 16:

     To many of us, organized religion is obnoxious. Yet if we throw out the sense of peace, order and joy that flows from religious ritual, we impoverish ourselves.

3. (intransitive) To become poor.

派生語

• impoverishee
• impoverisher
• impoverishment

参照

• “impoverish”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “impoverish”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “impoverish”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “impoverish”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “impoverish”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2026), “impoverish”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• “impoverish”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.