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English noun: impoverishment

1. impoverishment (state) the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions


Synonymspoorness, poverty


Broader (hypernym)financial condition


Narrower (hyponym)deprivation, destitution, impecuniousness, indigence, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, privation, want


Antonymswealth, wealthiness

2. impoverishment (act) the act of making someone poor


Synonymspauperisation, pauperization


Broader (hypernym)deprivation, privation









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