impoverish是什么意思？

impoverish

英[ɪmˈpɒvərɪʃ] 美[ɪmˈpɑvərɪʃ]

• vt. 使贫穷，使贫瘠或恶化，耗尽…的力气；

第三人称单数：impoverishes;

过去式：impoverished;

过去分词：impoverished;

现在分词：impoverishing;

名词：impoverishment;

例句

• Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime. 降低收入只会使这些家庭更加贫穷，而且可能诱使不法分子进一步犯罪。
• These changes are likely to impoverish single-parent families even further. 这些变革很可能使单亲家庭更加贫困。
• Reducing the income will further impoverish these families and could tempt an offender into further crime... 降低收入只会使这些家庭更加贫穷，而且可能诱使不法分子进一步犯罪。
• ...individuals who impoverish their families in pursuit of some dream. 为了追求某个梦想而使家庭陷于贫困的人
• ...plants that impoverish the soil quickly. 使土壤迅速贫瘠的植物
• We need to reduce the burden of taxes that impoverish the economy. 我们需要减轻导致经济困顿的税收负荷。

同义词

• vt.
  impoverish的同义词之：使贫困
  deplete, bankrupt, make, ruin, exhaust, poor,
• impoverish的同义词之：其他释义
  beggar, exhaust, break, bankrupt, ruin, deplete,

反义词

• vt.
  impoverish的反义词之：使贫困;使虚弱
  enrich,
• impoverish的反义词之：其他释义
  practical,

英语六级真题

But we would be equally impoverished (贫困的) without humanistic knowledge as well.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  使贫困;使赤贫
  Something that impoverishes a person or a country makes them poor.
  例句
  We need to reduce the burden of taxes that impoverish the economy. 我们需要减轻导致经济困顿的税收负荷。 ...a society impoverished by wartime inflation. 因战时通货膨胀导致贫困的社会
• VERB
  使贫瘠;使枯竭
  A person or thing that impoverishes something makes it worse in quality.
  例句
  ...plants that impoverish the soil quickly. 使土壤迅速贫瘠的植物

英汉词典释义

• vt.
  使(某人)贫穷
  They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。
  使(某物)贫瘠或恶化
  Its use spreads disease and impoverishes the land. 用了它之后, 病害蔓延, 土地贫瘠。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. make poor
  2. take away