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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Impoverishment; depauperization.
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This is, however, very different from the general face of the country; in a short time, after passing over the rich prairie, the same dry aridity and depauperation prevailed, which is almost universal west of the mountains.
Townsend Chapter 5 1839
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