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1. Poor enough to need help from others
   "The care of the impoverished was extremely defective until the 1920's";
   - destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken
    
2. Destroyed financially
   "the impoverished fortunes of the family";
   - broken, wiped out

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

See also: destroyed, poor

Type of: decline, deprive, worsen

Antonym: enrich

Encyclopedia: Impoverished