Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families. 2. (v. t.) To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.

Multi-Version Concordance Impoverish (3 Occurrences) Judges 14:15 It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you called us to impoverish us? Is it not so?" (WEB JPS ASV DBY NAS RSV) Jeremiah 5:17 And they shall eat up thine harvest, and thy bread, which thy sons and thy daughters should eat: they shall eat up thy flocks and thine herds: they shall eat up thy vines and thy fig trees: they shall impoverish thy fenced cities, wherein thou trustedst, with the sword. (KJV WBS) Zechariah 9:4 Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire. (See JPS)