impoverishment
- IPA[imˈpäv(ə)riSHm(ə)nt]
美式
- the process of becoming poor; loss of wealth;the process of losing or being deprived of strength or vitality; deterioration
noun: impoverishment, plural noun: impoverishments
- 釋義
名詞
- 1. the process of becoming poor; loss of wealth fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine
- ▪ the process of losing or being deprived of strength or vitality; deterioration this caused substantial impoverishment of the soil the impoverishment of language
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- IPA[ɪmˈpɒv(ə)rɪʃm(ə)nt]
英式
- the process of becoming poor; loss of wealth: fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine
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