1. causing poverty or depletion

1. making poor or reducing to poverty
Usage: present participle of impoverish

Examples

• The war was impoverishing the entire region.
• High medical costs are impoverishing many families.
• The drought had an impoverishing effect on local farmers.
• Years of corruption were impoverishing the nation.
• The company’s poor decisions were impoverishing its shareholders.
• These policies are impoverishing the middle class.
• The economic crisis is impoverishing small businesses.