Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which impoverishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, impoverishes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Someone who
impoverishes .
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Examples
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
Lisa Earle McLeod: How to Solve Really Big Problems Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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It's called the "impoverisher" because it's so painful that people can barely walk, much less farm or make a living.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Lisa Earle McLeod 2011
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On the contrary Aristides, by his poverty, made justice odious, as if it were the pest and impoverisher of a family and beneficial to all, rather than to those that were endowed with it.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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“War, then,” he said, “war, the grand impoverisher, is also a creator of wealth which it wastes and devours?”
Peveril of the Peak 1822
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"War, then," he said, "war, the grand impoverisher, is also a creator of wealth which it wastes and devours?"
Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801
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