| Pronunciation: | | `imp'âvrishmunt
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- [n] the act of making someone poor
- [n] the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
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| | Synonyms: | | pauperisation, pauperization, poorness, poverty |
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| | Antonyms: | | wealth, wealthiness |
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| | See Also: | | beggary, deprivation, deprivation, destitution, economic condition, financial condition, impecuniousness, indigence, need, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, privation, want |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Im*pov"er*ish*ment\, n. [Cf. OF.
empoverissement, and F. appauvrissement.]
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished;
reduction to poverty. --Sir W. Scott.
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