"empoverish" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "empoverishes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverishing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverished",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverished",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "empoverish (third-person singular simple present empoverishes, present participle empoverishing, simple past and past participle empoverished)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "impoverish"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815, Joseph Coppinger, The American Practical Brewer and Tanner",
          "text": "A sudden chill would precipitate the grosser, and diffuse the lighter dregs throughout the fermenting fluid, which should be thrown off from the surface in cleansing; this would retard the fining, and empoverish the beer or ale; while the mode recommended will be found to promote transparency, and give strength and body, that is, fullness and spirituosity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete",
          "text": "But we cannot refuse our admiration to the fervent and generous order of public spirit existent at that time, when we find that it was a popular leader who proposed to, and carried through, a popular assembly the motion, that went to empoverish the men who supported his party and adjudged his proposition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman",
          "text": "The judges allowed twenty minutes to prepare the horses for the second trial of their speed--a trial which must enrich or empoverish many of the thousands present.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of impoverish."
      ],
      "id": "en-empoverish-en-verb-hduCeUY4",
      "links": [
        [
          "impoverish",
          "impoverish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "empoverish"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "empoverishes",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverishing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverished",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "empoverished",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "empoverish (third-person singular simple present empoverishes, present participle empoverishing, simple past and past participle empoverished)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "impoverish"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English obsolete forms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1815, Joseph Coppinger, The American Practical Brewer and Tanner",
          "text": "A sudden chill would precipitate the grosser, and diffuse the lighter dregs throughout the fermenting fluid, which should be thrown off from the surface in cleansing; this would retard the fining, and empoverish the beer or ale; while the mode recommended will be found to promote transparency, and give strength and body, that is, fullness and spirituosity.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1837, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete",
          "text": "But we cannot refuse our admiration to the fervent and generous order of public spirit existent at that time, when we find that it was a popular leader who proposed to, and carried through, a popular assembly the motion, that went to empoverish the men who supported his party and adjudged his proposition.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1856, Austin Steward, Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman",
          "text": "The judges allowed twenty minutes to prepare the horses for the second trial of their speed--a trial which must enrich or empoverish many of the thousands present.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Obsolete spelling of impoverish."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "impoverish",
          "impoverish#English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "empoverish"
}