IMPOVERISHMENT

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The act of making someone poor

Synonyms:

impoverishment; pauperisation; pauperization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("impoverishment" is a kind of...):

deprivation; privation (act of depriving someone of food or money or rights)

Derivation:

impoverish (take away)

impoverish (make poor)

Meaning:

The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

Synonyms:

impoverishment; poorness; poverty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("impoverishment" is a kind of...):

financial condition (the condition of (corporate or personal) finances)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "impoverishment"):

deprivation; neediness; privation; want (a state of extreme poverty)

destitution (a state without friends or money or prospects)

indigence; need; pauperism; pauperization; penury (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)