Meaning & use
impoverished
Made very poor, lacking money or resources, or seriously lacking in some important quality.
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The impoverished village had no reliable access to clean drinking water.
Years of war left the once-prosperous nation impoverished and struggling to rebuild.
A note on using this word
Impoverished can describe financial poverty or, figuratively, a lack of something else valuable, as in an impoverished imagination.
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