impoverished

IPA: ɪmpˈɑvrɪʃt

Reduced to poverty.
Having lost a component, an ingredient, a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.

Examples of "impoverished" in Sentences

This is the “choice” you bourgeois-libs offer to the uninsured: remain impoverished and you get healthcare.
Child labor, which is a harsh reality for many youngsters in impoverished nations, became his fate at the age of 10.
Green Party candidate Claudia Rodriguez-Larrain ran what she described as an impoverished, but spirited campaign out of her home.
Indeed, Unmade-up features a piece by a certain impoverished author whom I have on reliable authority subsists on something called cawl (soup), so worth a look.
It's a cautionary tale and one of revelation, everyone knows these issues are present within impoverished areas, but one doesn't begin to truly care until they see it for themselves.
As long as the Right-wingers control the state of AL, places like Selma will remain impoverished because any federal, state, or local help is funneled right into the pockets of the GOP, and not It's citizens.
The top al-Qaida leader said a new "well-funded" relief organization should be created to study Muslim regions near bodies of water to prevent future flooding, to create development projects in impoverished regions and to work on farming and agriculture to guarantee food security.