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IMPOVERISHMENT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of making someone poor
Synonyms:
impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("impoverishment" is a kind of...):
deprivation; privation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)
Derivation:
impoverish (take away)
impoverish (make poor)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
Synonyms:
impoverishment; poorness; poverty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("impoverishment" is a kind of...):
financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impoverishment"):
deprivation; neediness; privation; want (a state of extreme poverty)
destitution (a state without friends or money or prospects)
indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)
impecuniousness; pennilessness; penuriousness (a state of lacking money)
