<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.</li><li>Antonyms: enrich.</li><li>to make poor in quality, productiveness, etc.; exhaust the strength or richness of: Bad farming practices impoverished the soil.</li></ul><p><strong>Synonyms</strong></p><ul><li>cripple, fatigue, enervate, weaken, drain, deplete</li></ul><p><strong>Antonyms</strong></p><ul><li>enrich</li></ul>