Impoverish

[ɪm'pɒv(ə)rɪʃ] or [ɪm'pɑvərɪʃ]

解釋/意思:

(verb.) make poor.

校對:莎娜--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.

(v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

巴雷特校對

同義詞及近義詞：

v. a. [1]. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to poverty, reduce to indigence.[2]. Exhaust the fertility of, make sterile.

艾莉森編輯

同義詞及反義詞：

[See ENRICH]

汉娜錄入

解釋/意思:

v.t. to make poor: to exhaust the resources (as of a nation) or fertility (as of the soil).—n. Impov′erishment.

卡洛琳手打