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1. Poor enough to need help from others
   "These struggles produce considerable stress in the lives of the impoverished and their families";
   - destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, dirt-poor [informal]
    
2. Destroyed financially
   "the impoverished fortunes of the family";
   - broken, wiped out

1. Make poor
    
2. Become poor
   - immiserise [Brit], immiserize, immiserate

See also: destroyed, poor

Type of: decline, deprive, worsen

Antonym: enrich

Encyclopedia: Impoverished