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impoverish

verb

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To make poor or seriously reduce available resources.

Years of neglect can impoverish a community's cultural life.
Dictionary practice example.
Selling most of the shared equipment to pay an unrelated bill would further impoverish the workshop's resources.
From A Town Project Loses Its Purpose.
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