Websters Dictionary 1828
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Impoverish
IMPOV'ERISH, verb transitive
1. To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence. Idleness and vice are sure to impoverish individuals and families.
2. To exhaust strength, richness or fertility; as, to impoverish land by frequent cropping.
First Occurrence in the Bible(KJV): Jeremiah 5:17