The liberty of this river would enrich perhaps the interior of the country, but it would certainly impoverish the coasts of the sea.
Do you shrink from our advice--and say, that obedience to its just requirements would impoverish you?
Agitation of the surface, at least, seems necessary to retain the cream; but if the surface only is agitated, manifestly the cream will escape from the bottom of the mass and impoverish it while enriching the top.
To cut ourselves off from this lot of the human would be to impoverish our lives, and deprive ourselves of the culture of the heart, which, if a man has not learned, he has learned nothing.
It is so easy for a man to become self-centred, and to impoverish his affections through sheer neglect.
The circumstances of the times which impoverish every one, have persuaded him to listen to my advice of conducting on his travels some English pupill of fashion and fortune.
But I must not impoverish myself too, and I have some thoughts of keeping the rest of my library (if not troublesome to Downing Street) till my return to England.
A country may spend, dissipate its profits and savings, may impoverish itself, and by the consumption of its national capital, progress gradually to its ruin.
If the prodigality of some was not compensated by the frugality of others, the conduct of every prodigal, by feeding the idle with the bread of the industrious, tends not only to beggar himself, but to impoverish his country.
Whether, by the continual exportation of those metals, a trade of this kind is likely to impoverish the country from which it is carried on in any other way, I shall have occasion to examine at great length hereafter.
Theoretically, the use of a manure furnishing only one element of plant food, if it increases the growth of crops which are sold from the farm, must have a tendency toimpoverish the land of the other elements of plant food.
To grow wheat every year in crops of 15 bushels per acre, would impoverish the soil just as much as to summer-fallow and get 30 bushels of wheat every other year.
The question is frequently asked, whether the use of phosphates will ultimately impoverish our farms.
To grow clover and sell it, will in the end impoverish the soil; to grow clover and feed it out, will enrich the land.
In other words, the use of superphosphate furnishing only, or principally, phosphoric acid, lime and sulphuric acid, must have a tendency to impoverish the soil of nitrogen and potash.
And a distinguished farmer, of this State, in a recent communication expressed the same idea--that summer-fallowing would soon impoverish the land.
The system of farming adopted in this section, is much more likely to impoverish the soil of nitrogen and phosphoric acid than of potash.
If no more grain is sold in one case than in the other, the summer-fallowing will not impoverish the soil any more than corn growing.
He returned to the Vicarage with his mind dwelling upon the eternal conflict, a conflict accentuated by the world-war, because its issues seemed to enrich or impoverish everybody.
They may lead us to God or away from Him; they may enrich or impoverish the soul.
St. Thomas recommends the giving of alms out of this part of one's estate, but points out that it is only a matter of counsel, and not of precept, and one must not give alms to such an extent as to impoverish oneself permanently.
According to the Socialist teaching, the property-owners as a class are useless idlers who impoverish the workers and who shamelessly spend their whole income on demoralising luxuries.
Not only did the Navigation Acts impoverish Virginia, but they brought additional disaster to the people by provoking the Dutch to war.
In Italy, the hooded Members of Confraternities who attend on funerals, are dismal and ugly to look upon; but the services they render are at least voluntarily rendered, and impoverish no one, and cost nothing.
This creature takes cases of death and mourning under his supervision, and will frequently impoverish a whole family by his preposterous enchantments.
Instead of hallowing the life it will debase and impoverish it.
How we impoverish ourselves by separating these precious gifts from their Giver?
If I ignore the house of prayer I impoverish my home.
In large doses, Citric acid would disturb the reaction of the secretions, and Potash would impoverish the blood.
Iodine is not, like Mercury, a general Antiphlogistic; but it is a stimulator of the function of absorption, as are all the medicines that tend to impoverish the blood.
All except Chalybeates are grouped together in a sub-class, called Spanaemics, because they tend toimpoverish the blood.
Spanaemics the first of these, are named from their tendency to impoverish the blood.
For our object in making use of such agents is not to impoverish the blood, but to obtain such a manifestation of their power as shall suffice to neutralize the noxious agent, and no more.
To exhaust the strength, richness, or fertility of; to make sterile; as, to impoverish land.
Legal spoliation, which will impoverish one part of the community in order to corrupt the remainder.
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families.
So I appeal from your wealth to your nobility, to help us to impoverish your class a little relatively and make all the world infinitely richer by that impoverishment.
Their greed is too great to appreciate the fact that to impoverish customers destroys trade.
And she seems to have deserved all his praise and affection, exerting herself to the utmost to help him, and ready to impoverish herself to find him the means that he needed.
The social plants which almost exclusively predominate in the steppes, are monocotyledons; and it is known how much grasses impoverish the soil into which their fibrous roots penetrate.
Where the Californian mountains have been cleared, the browsing millions of sheep keep down all new growth, and, bringing great wealth in our age, they threaten to impoverish posterity.
Cruelty was evidently a discipline that did not impoverish his physical system.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "impoverish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
