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Synonyms for impoverishment
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : im-pov-er-ish, -pov-rish |
| Phonetic Transcription : ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃ, -ˈpɒv rɪʃ |
Top 10 synonyms for impoverishment
- attenuation
- bankruptcy
- barrenness
- beggary
- dearth
- debt
- deficiency
- deficit
- destitution
- devitalization
- difficulty
- distress
- emptiness
- enervation
- enfeeblement
- exhaustion
- exiguity
- impecuniosity
- impecuniousness
- inadequacy
- indigence
- insufficiency
- lack
- meagerness
- necessitousness
- necessity
- need
- neediness
- pass
- paucity
- pauperism
- pennilessness
- penuriousness
- penury
- pinch
- poorness
- reduction
- shortage
- straits
- vacancy
- want
Définition of impoverishment
Origin :- 1550s; see impoverish + -ment.
- noun poverty
- noun debilitation
- It results in impoverishment and distortion and subsequent deficiency.
- Extract from : « Fantasia of the Unconscious » by D. H. Lawrence
- Our very success has in one aspect tended to their impoverishment.
- Extract from : « Life and Work in Benares and Kumaon, 1839-1877 » by James Kennedy
- And what had been the impoverishment of her soul under this grim discipline?
- Extract from : « Robert Orange » by John Oliver Hobbes
- The tax-taker was the authority for the wretched creature's impoverishment.
- Extract from : « The Letters of Charles Dickens » by Charles Dickens
- The smallness of the tribute proves the impoverishment of the land.
- Extract from : « The Expositor's Bible » by F. W. Farrar
- But impoverishment is not the only ill consequence which the new system may produce.
- Extract from : « The Earl of Beaconsfield » by James Anthony Froude
- Never since her impoverishment had she worn such good clothes.
- Extract from : « When Ghost Meets Ghost » by William Frend De Morgan
- Nor does this impoverishment happen without the judgment of God.
- Extract from : « Dante. An essay. » by R. W. Church
- Why does this distribution lessen the impoverishment of the soil?
- Extract from : « The Elements of Agriculture » by George E. Waring
- To preserve the latter from impoverishment was the main object of the law.
- Extract from : « Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II » by William Roscher
Antonyms for impoverishment
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