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Synonyms for impoverish

Most common

bankrupt pauperize immiserate deplete denude

All synonyms

Verb

1. Ruin — to make poor

ruin, beggar, bankrupt, break, pauperize, pauperise UK, immiserate, destitute, poor rare, empoverish dated

Definitions

  1. v. 1

    To make poor.

Related words

Word family
impoverishment
Is a kind of
deprive

Forms

Past participle
impoverished
e.g. impoverished → ruined, beggared, bankrupted, breaked…

Example sentences

  • bankrupt Can Algeria really go bankrupt? It's very unlikely.

Popularity over time

Word1850 → 2019Trend
impoverishsteady
bankruptfalling
pauperizesteady
depletesteady
denudefalling

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

4 letters
poor1, ruin2
5 letters
break1
6 letters
reduce2, fleece1, beggar2, denude2
7 letters
exhaust2, deprive2, deplete2
8 letters
bankrupt2
9 letters
destitute3, pauperize, pauperise
10 letters
immiserate, empoverish

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ruin2 = 2 syllables).

In other languages

Français
appauvrir
Italiano
impoverire
Español
empobrecer