| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. To deplete.[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Present participle conjugation of the verb impoverish.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (impoverish) | 1. Make poor.[Wordnet]. 2. Take away.[Wordnet]. 3. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.[Websters]. 4. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: impoverishing, impoverished, impoverishes, impoverisher, impoverishers, impoverishingly and impoverishedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Adjective | 1. Being exhausting.
[Eve - graph theoretic] 2. Being ruinous. [Eve - graph theoretic] 3. Being depressing. [Eve - graph theoretic] 4. Being deadening. [Eve - graph theoretic] 5. Being enervating or debilitating.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
Sources: compiled from various sources, (under license) copyright 2008. | Top | |
Date "IMPOVERISHING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1649. (references) |
Specialty Definition: IMPOVERISHING
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | [Verb] Making poor; exhausting. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | Top | ||
