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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs impoverish, pauperize, impoor and pauperise which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

poor
  1. With little or no possessions or money, particularly in relation to contemporaries who do have them.
  2. Of low quality.
  3. Used to express pity.
  4. Deficient in a specified way.
  5. Inadequate, insufficient.
  6. Free from self-assertion; not proud or arrogant; meek.
  7. Synonyms:
  8. Examples:
    1. “After Larry's company had the misfortune of going under, he became poor.”
      “You are an upstanding guy, but it doesn't mean that you can get away with poor workmanship.”
      “The farmers in the East Coast have had to deal with a poor amount of rain recently.”
impoverished
  1. Reduced to poverty.
  2. Having lost a component, an ingredient, or a faculty or a feature; rendered poor in something; depleted.
  3. Synonyms:
  4. Examples:
    1. “The reforms are necessary to improve the conditions in these impoverished areas.”
      “Their exploitative actions have rendered many of the people debt-laden, bankrupt and impoverished.”
      “Only the river Guadiana Menor, with a small valley, provides a contrast to the impoverished landscape.”
pov
  1. (colloquial, Australia) Poor; impoverished; cheap.
impoverisht
  1. Obsolete form of impoverished.
poorly
povvo
  1. (slang) poor, penniless
poorish
  1. Reasonably poor, quite poor.
  2. Examples:
    1. “But poorish health and frustration with the constant squabbling at the academy made him decide to call it a day.”
      “Without more or less of this knowledge, a lady, even the wife of a peer, is but a poorish thing.”
      “It was, in fact, a poorish match and the young couple were dependent more or less on Wardle.”
poore
  1. Obsolete spelling of poor
poorlier
  1. comparative form of poorly: more poorly
poorliest
  1. superlative form of poorly: most poorly
poorest
  1. superlative form of poor: most poor.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Can China help lift the world's poorest region out of its deep economic and political malaise?”
      “The basic premise that the international companies will be providing water for the world's poorest is just off the wall.”
      “Even the poorest of the poor, when given a choice, can be choosy about brands.”
poorer
  1. comparative form of poor: more poor
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “People with shortsightedness have poorer ability to focus accurately by accommodation, which leads to even more retinal blur and defocus.”
      “Less well-off families find it as much of a necessity as wealthy ones, and fuel duties have raised the overall tax burden on poorer families.”
      “The abolition of most grammar schools kicked away the ladder for children from poorer backgrounds.”
impoverishing
pauperized
pauperizing
impoored
  1. simple past tense and past participle of impoor
pauperised
  1. simple past tense and past participle of pauperise
pauperising
  1. present participle of pauperise
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