| Impoverish 1. (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. 2. (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land. Thesaurus Entries ablate, absorb, assimilate, bankrupt, beggar, bleed, bleed white, break, burn up, bust, consume, denude, deplete, deplume, despoil, digest, displume, divest, drain, drain of resources, draw, draw down, dry, eat, eat up, erode, exhaust, expend, finish, finish off, flay, fleece, fold up, gobble, gobble up, ingest, milk, pauper, pauperize, pick clean, pluck, reduce, ruin, scuttle, shear, sink, skin, spend, squander, strip, strip bare, suck dry, swallow, swallow up, use up, waste away, wear away |