1. Poor enough to need help from others
   "The impoverished family struggled to afford basic food and shelter";
   - destitute, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken, dirt-poor [informal]
    
2. Destroyed financially
   "the impoverished fortunes of the family";
   - broken, wiped out

1. Make poor
   "The economic crisis impoverished millions of people"
    
2. Make poor or cause to become impoverished
   "The economic crisis impoverished many families";
   - immiserate, immiserize, immiserise [Brit]

See also: destroyed, poor

Type of: decline, deprive, worsen

Antonym: enrich

Encyclopedia: Impoverished