IMPOVERISHMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does impoverishment mean? 

• IMPOVERISHMENT (noun)
  The noun IMPOVERISHMENT has 2 senses:

1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

2. the act of making someone poor

  Familiarity information: IMPOVERISHMENT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMPOVERISHMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

impoverishment; poorness; poverty

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of making someone poor

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization

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)