impoverished

/im-pov-er-isht, -pov-risht/US // ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃt //

穷困潦倒,穷困的,贫穷的,穷苦的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : reduced to poverty.
- : having few trees, flowers, birds, wild animals, etc.
- : deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.: an impoverished attempt at humor.

adj.poor, exhausted

Synonyms

Pelletier took no action against Letourneau, who was appointed to represent impoverished clients in 470 cases between 2010 and 2016 while working for the commission.
For decades after Gideon, the state allowed judges to assign and pay private attorneys to represent impoverished defendants.
People couldn’t move their families because, as law enforcement officers said when asked, over 80 percent of these target areas are impoverished.
The islands became BIOT, and their inhabitants were dumped, impoverished, on Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Then, as today, the epidemic fell most heavily on the inhabitants of impoverished inner-city areas.
Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.
Densely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.
My office is located such that I have many patients from both affluent and impoverished communities.
Atlanta soon flourished, becoming the resurgent urban center of an otherwise impoverished South.
Impoverished defendants were frequently ordered to pay fines that were triple their monthly income.
The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.

/im-pov-er-isht, -pov-risht/US // ɪmˈpɒv ər ɪʃt, -ˈpɒv rɪʃt //

穷困潦倒,穷困的,贫穷的,穷苦的

adj.形容词 adjective

1
- : reduced to poverty.
- : having few trees, flowers, birds, wild animals, etc.
- : deprived of strength, vitality, creativeness, etc.: an impoverished attempt at humor.

adj.poor, exhausted

Synonyms

Pelletier took no action against Letourneau, who was appointed to represent impoverished clients in 470 cases between 2010 and 2016 while working for the commission.
For decades after Gideon, the state allowed judges to assign and pay private attorneys to represent impoverished defendants.
People couldn’t move their families because, as law enforcement officers said when asked, over 80 percent of these target areas are impoverished.
The islands became BIOT, and their inhabitants were dumped, impoverished, on Mauritius and the Seychelles.
Then, as today, the epidemic fell most heavily on the inhabitants of impoverished inner-city areas.
Locking up the primary breadwinner can push a family from working-class to impoverished.
Densely populated and impoverished, the community was struggling long before Ebola arrived.
My office is located such that I have many patients from both affluent and impoverished communities.
Atlanta soon flourished, becoming the resurgent urban center of an otherwise impoverished South.
Impoverished defendants were frequently ordered to pay fines that were triple their monthly income.
The companies are declared to be impoverished by the taking of inordinate numbers of apprentices.