Word Meanings - IMPOVERISH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. 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,
Additional info about word: IMPOVERISH
F. pauvre; cf. OF. apovrir, F. appauvrir, where the prefix is a-, L. 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.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMPOVERISH)
- Bereave
- Rob
- deprive
- divest
- dispossess
- impoverish
- reduce
- spoil
- strip
- Reduce
- Lessen
- diminish
- curtail
- attenuate
- narrow
- contract
- weaken
- impair
- subdue
- subjugate
- bring
- refer
- subject
- classify
- convert
- Plunder
- denude
- pillage
- defraud
- cheat
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of IMPOVERISH)
Related words: (words related to IMPOVERISH)
- BRANDLING; BRANDLIN
See WORM - BROKERY
The business of a broker. And with extorting, cozening, forfeiting, And tricks belonging unto brokery. Marlowe. - BREVIARY
summary, abridgment, neut. noun fr. breviarius abridged, fr. brevis 1. An abridgment; a compend; an epitome; a brief account or summary. A book entitled the abridgment or breviary of those roots that are to be cut up or gathered. Holland. 2. A - BRITTLELY
In a brittle manner. Sherwood. - BRAND IRON
1. A branding iron. 2. A trivet to set a pot on. Huloet. 3. The horizontal bar of an andiron. - BRAZIL NUT
An oily, three-sided nut, the seed of the Bertholletia excelsa; the cream nut. Note: From eighteen to twenty-four of the seed or "nuts" grow in a hard and nearly globular shell. - BRAST
To burst. And both his yën braste out of his face. Chaucer. Dreadfull furies which their chains have brast. Spenser. - BREAKMAN
See BRAKEMAN - REVERSED
Annulled and the contrary substituted; as, a reversed judgment or decree. Reversed positive or negative , a picture corresponding with the original in light and shade, but reversed as to right and left. Abney. (more info) 1. Turned side for side, - BROID
To braid. Chaucer. - BROIDERER
One who embroiders. - BRUISEWORT
A plant supposed to heal bruises, as the true daisy, the soapwort, and the comfrey. - DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation. - PLUNDERER
One who plunders or pillages. - ATTENUATE; ATTENUATED
1. Made thin or slender. 2. Made thin or less viscid; rarefied. Bacon. - NARROW
A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor. Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow. Gladstone. - DIVESTITURE
The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc. - BRAWNER
A boor killed for the table. - BRACHIOGANOID
One of the Brachioganoidei. - BRANCHIOSTOMA
The lancelet. See Amphioxus. - BREATHE
Etym: 1. To respire; to inhale and exhale air; hence;, to live. "I am in health, I breathe." Shak. Breathes there a man with soul so dead Sir W. Scott. 2. To take breath; to rest from action. Well! breathe awhile, and then to it again! Shak. 3. - COUNTERBRACE
To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another. - UNDERBRED
Not thoroughly bred; ill-bred; as, an underbred fellow. Goldsmith. - OPPROBRIOUS
1. Expressive of opprobrium; attaching disgrace; reproachful; scurrilous; as, opprobrious language. They . . . vindicate themselves in terms no less opprobrious than those by which they are attacked. Addison. 2. Infamous; despised; rendered - CREBRICOSTATE
Marked with closely set ribs or ridges. - TECTIBRANCHIA
See TECTIBRANCHIATA - CAMBRIC
1. A fine, thin, and white fabric made of flax or linen. He hath ribbons of all the colors i' the rainbow; . . . inkles, caddises, cambrics, lawns. Shak. 2. A fabric made, in imitation of linen cambric, of fine, hardspun cotton, often with figures - MAKE AND BREAK
Any apparatus for making and breaking an electric circuit; a circuit breaker. - BRASIER; BRAZIER
An artificer who works in brass. Franklin. - TOOTHBRUSH
A brush for cleaning the teeth. - OVERBROW
To hang over like a brow; to impend over. Longfellow. Did with a huge projection overbrow Large space beneath. Wordsworth. - CHICKEN-BREASTED
Having a narrow, projecting chest, caused by forward curvature of the vertebral column. - SUBBRONCHIAL
Situated under, or on the ventral side of, the bronchi; as, the subbronchial air sacs of birds. - NUDIBRANCHIATA
A division of opisthobranchiate mollusks, having no shell except while very young. The gills are naked and situated upon the back or sides. See Ceratobranchia.