The word "impoverish" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use "impoverish" when you want to describe a situation in which a person or a group of people become very poor or deprived of resources. For example: "The ongoing war has impoverished many families in the country."
Orbán has used new media laws to turn public television into a mouthpiece for his government, and used tax inspectors and advertising money to intimidate, impoverish and weaken critical media.
It is a process so long and expensive that it is commonly used to impoverish and exhaust legal opponents into settling cases.
When Ms Le Pen demands protection for French firms from foreign competition, she is threatening to impoverish her compatriots.
According to AEI's Arthur Brooks, Heritage's Ed Feulner, and the Weekly Standard's Bill Kristol, any attempt to shrink the big government of garrisons and guns will "make the world a more dangerous place, and... impoverish our future".
Africa's profusion of natural wealth whether gold, ivory or the very bodies of its inhabitants—served not to enrich its peoples but to impoverish and enslave them.
On May 1st he told The Economist that "foreign aid continues to be detrimental to trading systems, continues to encourage the misallocation of local capital and skill, continues to foster government policies that impoverish rather than benefit people".In this section To these, the spoils Sell?
Some Japanese, particularly women, fear they will spread addiction to gambling and impoverish households.
The West Bank's balkanisation would continue to impoverish Palestinians.
The Independent's blaspheming scribes were perhaps lucky to be released on bail this week.Zimbabwe provides a dramatic illustration of how statist economic policies, corruptly enforced, swiftly impoverish.
But why should it help the governments in the region that seem blind to the monstrosity of Mr Mugabe, whose venality has helped impoverish much of the rest of the region too?
If so, the richest corners of many a country the Acehs, Katangas, Biafras and Bougainvilles, maybe even the Belgravias and Beverly Hills—have a licence to go it alone, and thus to impoverish their ex-compatriots.
