impoverished
/ɪmˈpɑvəɹɪʃt/ adjectif C1En français : appauvri
- Reduced to poverty.
- Lacking in richness, diversity or health. · The impoverished soil here can not support any crop.
- Having lost a component, ingredient, faculty or feature; rendered poor in some attribute; depleted. · English has an impoverished inflectional system.
- Represented by few species. · The fossil record from this era is impoverished.
Dans la bibliothèque
King of France, who was formidable still in spite of his recent reverses; and it was necessary, therefore, to have recourse to some profitable scheme, which was a matter of great difficulty in the impoverished condition of exhausted Italy.
The foul stench permeated every corner of the suffocated city, creating an inescapable and profoundly debilitating ordeal for both the affluent and the impoverished.
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