What is "impoverishes"

Usage examples of "impoverishes".

Moreover, all the expense of maintaining and educating their fatherless children falls on them: which expense impoverishes them, and is every way prejudicial to their physical and moral existence.

The bondage which, in the tenth century, was necessary to re-established security and agriculture, is, in the eighteenth century, purposeless thralldom which impoverishes the soil and fetters the peasant.

Either health care is so expensive that it impoverishes ordinary people, or the poor are dying because they can't afford it.

Then people found that there were snags about the German stuff, it impoverishes the soil, which guano doesn't do, and gradually the price of guano improved and the industry staggered back to its feet.

Sultan Bayazid is reported to have said: `You call Ferdinand a wise king, he who impoverishes his country and enriches our own?

Sultan Bayazid is reported to have said: 'You call Ferdinand a wise king, he who impoverishes his country and enriches our own?