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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
empoverish .
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Examples
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That TOTALLY solves the problem of teenaged pregnancy in empoverished areas.
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Germany, the biggest military potency then, tried to do it 60 years ago, and failed miserably, and ended divided, empoverished and subdued to the will of the winners.
Think Progress » Bolton’s Bubble: U.N. Ambassador Skips All Security Council Foreign Travel 2006
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Hitler was a demagogue (much like GW Bush) who pretended to be on the side of the small german guy, humiliated by the WWI and empoverished by the Great Depression who hit the whole world.
Think Progress » Leading Climate Skeptic Compares Gore to Hitler 2006
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And, fear to say, as recently as the days 5/1 and the 5/5, you have had demonstrations in many of your cities, based on the same principles: lack of integration, empoverished neighbourhoods, lower economic background.
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Eminent Domain Law was designed to promote the “Good of the Public”, not to assist the Rich, Private Land Developer to force empoverished Citizens from their property, for Corporate Financial gains.
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In actuality it has been found that an affluent DeAndre' will fare better and be better accepted by teahcers and peers in school than an empoverished Drew.
Does naming your son DeAndre rather than David doom him? Steve Sailer 2005
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It would be such a shock to return from a gravely empoverished country like Africa where the people are starving and disease stricken, to a country where we are so lucky.
sierrazen Diary Entry sierrazen 2004
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The managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will travel to Africa next month to get a first - hand glimpse at the challenges facing the empoverished continent, the IMF said
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Thus depopulated, empoverished, and distressed, the enemies whom the cruelty of Sparta nursed within her bosom resolved to seize the moment to execute their vengeance and consummate her destruction.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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There was this difference, however, between us; the land, when my father obtained it, was in good condition; it was now (so well had it prospered under Jones's hands) entirely worn out and empoverished, and not worth
Sheppard Lee 1836
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