| slovo | definícia |
impoverished
(encz) | impoverished,ochuzený adj: Zdeněk Brož |
impoverished
(encz) | impoverished,zchudlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
Impoverished
(gcide) | 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.
[1913 Webster]
2. To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to
make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
[1913 Webster] |
impoverished
(wn) | impoverished
adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute,
impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy,
poverty-stricken]
2: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
[syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished] |
| | podobné slovo | definícia |
impoverished
(encz) | impoverished,ochuzený adj: Zdeněk Brožimpoverished,zchudlý adj: Zdeněk Brož |
ruined wiped outpredicate impoverished
(gcide) | destroyed \destroyed\ adj.
1. p. p. of destroy. [Narrower terms: {annihilated,
exterminated, wiped out(predicate)}; {blasted, desolate,
desolated, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted};
blighted, spoilt; {blotted out, obliterate,
obliterated}; demolished, dismantled, razed; {done
for(predicate), kaput(predicate), gone(prenominal), lost,
finished(predicate)}; extinguished; {ruined, wiped
out(predicate), impoverished}; totaled, wrecked;
war-torn, war-worn; {despoiled, pillaged, raped,
ravaged, sacked}] Also See: damaged. Antonym:
preserved
[WordNet 1.5]
2. destroyed physically or morally.
Syn: ruined.
[WordNet 1.5] |
impoverished
(wn) | impoverished
adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute,
impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy,
poverty-stricken]
2: destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"
[syn: broken, wiped out(p), impoverished] |
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