impoverish  /ɪmp'ɑvrɪʃ/

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資料來源(1): pydict data [pydict]

  impoverish
  (vt.)使貧窮,使枯竭

資料來源(2): Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]

  Impoverish \Im*pov"er*ish\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Impoverished};
     p. pr. & vb. n. {Impoverishing}.] [OF. empovrir; pref. em-
     (L. in) + povre poor, F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F.
     appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. ad. Cf. {Empoverish},
     and see {Poor}, and {-ish}.]
     1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as,
        misfortune and disease impoverish families.
  
     2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to
        make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

資料來源(3): WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]

  impoverish
       v 1: make poor [ant: {enrich}]
       2: take away [syn: {deprive}] [ant: {enrich}]