"impoverished state" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe a situation where a person, group, or country has limited resources or wealth. For example, "The poor village was in an impoverished state, with no access to basic amenities such as clean water and electricity."
As soon as they reverted to their normal Malawian diet, their microbes also boomeranged back to their earlier impoverished state.
The first entry in Cassandra Mortmain's diary ends with her feeling happier than she ever has in her life, despite her depressed father and impoverished state.
If a system of US-type private liberal arts colleges like this one gains ground in Britain, the result will be to relegate an already impoverished state university system to second-class status.
Of the 45 or so students, none are from this mountainous, impoverished state.
Should Barbour win, his many connections could well be beneficial to a small, impoverished state.
He tainted its identity, and changed it from a beloved, dignified country to a lowly, impoverished state surviving on crumbs.
A unique institutional feature in the impoverished state of Oaxaca, Mexico, divides municipalities into traditional and party-based governance.
With Greece's impoverished state structure stretched to breaking point, refugees have been dependent on the kindness of strangers.
In the violent and impoverished state of Manipur, a leading female boxer is using her academy to offer teenagers hope for the future.
Analysts say these provocations reflect the increasing desperation of the Communist North, which needs the resumption of aid shipments from the wealthier, capitalist South to prop up its impoverished state-run economy.
"Can you make no use of nothing, nuncle?" the Fool asks Lear, meaning, among other things, can you make no use of your now-impoverished state to see what the world can be, at bottom?
