impoverishing

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of impoverish

comparative more impoverishing · superlative most impoverishing

1. formalTending to impoverish (To weaken in quality; to deprive of some strength or richness); limiting.

   They accompanied the pair to their home, where there was every indication of the very impoverishing effects of a course of inebriation.

   1877, Jacob Samuel Vandersloot, The True Path, Or, The Murphy Movement and Gospel Temperance, L.T. Palmer, page 336

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   It seems impoverishing to me to cite 1763 as a crucial year in terms of royal-parlementary exchanges on fiscal issues, as Doyle does, without calling attention to the fact that this is the inaugural year of liberalization; or to invoke Maynon d'Invault's desire to prolong the second twentieth tax in December 1768 without observing that this very year and month mark the apogee of subsistence turbulence

   2015, Steven L. Kaplan, The Stakes of Regulation: Perspectives on 'Bread, Politics and Political Economy' Forty Years Later, Anthem Press, page 182