Showing results for "impoverishing"
- present participle of impoverish.
impoverishing
ADJECTIVE
ruinous
Synonyms
STRONGEST
calamitous
cataclysmic
catastrophic
crippling
damaging
deadly
dire
fatal
harmful
hurtful
murderous
pernicious
WEAK
Antonyms
STRONGEST
WEAK
ADJECTIVE
tumbledown
Synonyms
WEAK
annihilative
baleful
baneful
calamitous
cataclysmic
catastrophic
crippling
damaging
deadly
deleterious
depleting
dilapidated
dire
draining
exhausting
extravagant
fatal
fateful
harmful
hurtful
immoderate
injurious
murderous
noxious
pernicious
ramshackle
rundown
shattering
suicidal
unfortunate
wasteful
withering
wrackful
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Vague discourses upon uninteresting abstractions make up the tale of his pages, together with an incredibly stupid “Essay on Tea, considered as pernicious to Health, obstructing Industry, and Impoverishing the Nation.”
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)