|  impoverishment 
 
 1. the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions
 • Syn:
 poverty, poorness
 • Ant:
 wealth (for: poverty)
 • Derivationally related forms:
 poor (for: poorness)
 • Hypernyms:
 financial condition
 • Hyponyms:
 privation, want, deprivation, neediness, destitution,
 indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization, impecuniousness,
 pennilessness, penuriousness
 2. the act of making someone poor
 • Syn:
 pauperization, pauperisation
 • Derivationally related forms:
 impoverish, pauperise (for: pauperisation), pauperize (for: pauperization)
 • Hypernyms:
 privation, deprivation
 
 
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