英语单词“impoverishing”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析

单词 impoverishing 释义 impoverishingpresent participle ofimpoverishimpoverishverb[T]formaluk

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/?m?pɑ?.v?.??/to make someone verypoor:The newlawislikelytofurtherimpoverishsingleparents.He was made topayaruinousfinethat impoverished hisfamily.to make somethingweakerorworseinquality:Excessivefarminghad impoverished thesoil.Ourculturalheritagewould be impoverished by theabsenceof Mozart.Seeimpoverished

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• She said theIndiandamprojectwould impoverish millions of the world'spoorestpeople.
• Somepeoplearguethatmultinationalcompaniesexploitpoorworkersabroadand impoverishworkersathomebymovingcapitaloverseas.
• Theoboetendsto impoverish thetoneof theviolins.
• Thiscoarsenessofimageryisvisuallyimpoverishingourtowns.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Deteriorating and making worse

• add
• admin
• aggravate
• backslide
• be (all) downhillidiom
• compound
• debase
• degrade
• deterioration
• devaluation
• devalue
• disintegrate
• dog
• downgrade
• regress
• regression
• regressive
• relapse
• retrograde
• retrogress

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(Definition ofimpoverishingfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus? Cambridge University Press)#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/impoverishing##