The meaning of Impoverished

adjective

(of a person or organization) declared in law as unable to pay their debts.

Usage examples:

His father went bankrupt and the family had to sell their home

noun

A person judged by a court to be insolvent, whose property is taken and disposed of for the benefit of their creditors.

Usage examples:

But we will provide more effective protection against the small minority of bankrupts who abuse the…

verb

Reduce (a person or organization) to bankruptcy.

Usage examples:

The strike nearly bankrupted the union

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

verb

Separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain.

Usage examples:

The branch broke with a loud snap

noun

An interruption of continuity or uniformity.

Usage examples:

The magazine has been published without a break since 1950

noun

Former term for breaking cart.

adjective

Past participle of break1.

verb

Separate or cause to separate into pieces as a result of a blow, shock, or strain.

Usage examples:

The branch broke with a loud snap

adjective

Past participle of break

Usage examples:

My camera is broken., a broken line, he spoke very broken english., after his wife's death, he seem…

verb

Cause severe and disabling damage to; deprive of the ability to function normally.

Usage examples:

Developing countries are crippled by their debts

noun

A person with a severe limitation of a specified kind.

Usage examples:

An emotional cripple

verb

Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg

adjective

Extremely poor and lacking the means to provide for oneself.

Usage examples:

The charity cares for destitute children

adjective

Without money, possessions, or any of the things needed to live

Usage examples:

These groups gathered clothing, schoolbooks, and medical supplies for the destitute flood victims.

adjective

Without money, food, a home, or possessions

Usage examples:

During the global economic crisis many people were left destitute., poverty and destitution are wid…

adjective

Having little or no money.

Usage examples:

A titled but impecunious family

adjective

Having very little money

Usage examples:

The company suffered huge losses as its young, impecunious buyers failed to start to make payments …

adjective

Poor; needy.

Usage examples:

A charity for the relief of indigent artists

noun

A needy person.

Usage examples:

Automatons, illiterates and indigents of every shape and size, don't stop but aid this cruel crusad…

adjective

Having no money or anything else of value

Usage examples:

An indigent family

adjective

Unable to pay debts owed.

Usage examples:

The company became insolvent

noun

An insolvent person.

Usage examples:

Since when did insolvents have the right to impose their failed prescriptions on flourishing entrep…

adjective

(esp. of a company) unable to pay what you owe because you do not have enough money

Usage examples:

When it discovered the loans could not be repaid, the bank became insolvent.

adjective

(of a person) lacking the necessities of life; very poor.

Usage examples:

Needy and elderly people

verb

Make very poor; impoverish.

Usage examples:

The party pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people

verb

Make very poor; impoverish.

Usage examples:

The party pauperized the country while claiming to be empowering its people

adjective

(of a person) having no money; very poor.

Usage examples:

A penniless young student

adjective

Without any money at all

Usage examples:

A penniless youth

adjective

Without any money at all

Usage examples:

A series of bad investments left him almost penniless.

adjective

Extremely poor; poverty-stricken.

Usage examples:

A penurious old tramp

adjective

Extremely poor

adjective

Lacking sufficient money to live at a standard considered comfortable or normal in a society.

Usage examples:

They were too poor to afford a telephone

adjective

Extremely poor

Usage examples:

My grandparents arrived in this country as poverty-stricken immigrants.

noun

The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.

Usage examples:

A large white house falling into gentle ruin

verb

Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers

verb

To spoil or destroy something

Usage examples:

It would be a shame to ruin such a beautiful place., that guy isn’t going to ruin my life.

adjective

(of a building or place) reduced to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

A ruined castle

verb

Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

Usage examples:

The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers