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impoverishment

NOUN
poverty
Synonyms
STRONGEST
depletion famine hardship insolvency privation scarcity starvation underdevelopment
STRONG
abjection aridity bankruptcy barrenness beggary dearth debt deficiency deficit destitution difficulty distress emptiness exiguity impecuniousness inadequacy indigence insufficiency lack meagerness necessity need neediness pass paucity pauperism pennilessness penuriousness penury pinch poorness reduction shortage straits vacancy want
WEAK
impecuniosity necessitousness
Antonyms
STRONG
abundance adequacy advantage affluence comfort enough excess fill lot pleasure plenty satisfaction sufficiency wealth
NOUN
debilitation
Synonyms
STRONGEST
depletion
STRONG
attenuation deficiency devitalization enervation enfeeblement exhaustion reduction

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Impoverishment of the elderly because of medical expenses was a common and often accepted occurrence.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2019

Impoverishment supervening they went forth in the crusades to die, or, less finely, dropped back among the jongleurs, minstrels, strollers and mere poets with whom subsequently they were generally confused.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

Impoverishment under the name of revision may very justly be deprecated, but who shall find any just fault with an enrichment that is really such?

From A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer by Huntington, William Reed

Have compassion on Poverty, but a hundred times more on Impoverishment!

From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Richter, Jean Paul Friedrich

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