Reverse Dictionary: IMPOVERISH

ADJECTIVES
► ASSED OUT defeated, out of luck, impoverished → 1980s African-American sl.
► BANG-UP impoverished, penniless → M19 US sl.
► BARE AS A MILKPAN WHEN THE CAT’S BEEN ROUND impoverished → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► BEATEN-OUT impoverished → M19 sl.
► BEGGARED impoverished; reduced to destitution → 1599
► BOWERY pert. to tramps and hobos; hence, impoverished, poor → 1900s sl.
► BROKEN penniless, out of funds, impoverished, poor → M17 sl.
► DEADBEAT useless, ne’er-do-well, impoverished → L19 sl.
► DOWN TO ONE’S SEAMS absolutely impoverished → L19 US sl.
► FULL OF MONEY AS A TOAD IS OF FEATHERS, AS penniless, poor, impoverished → 19C
► GUTTED impoverished; penniless; temporarily without cash → c1820 sl.
► MONEY-WANTING impoverished → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NOT A SIXPENCE TO SCRATCH ONE’S ARSE WITH absolutely impoverished, penniless → M19 sl.
► ON ONE’S ABE impoverished → 1900s sl.
► OOFLESS impoverished → 1905 sl.
► OXY impoverished-looking; having a second-hand or dated appearance → 2001 UK juvenile sl.
► POOR AS A CHURCH-MOUSE adj. very poor, impoverished → 1682
► POOR AS A SNAKE very poor, impoverished → 1942 Amer. dial.
► SALT unlucky, in a bad state; impoverished, empty-handed, low on food → 1950s W. Indies Rasta
► SHINNING impoverished, needing money → 1862 Amer.
► SNAKE-POOR very poor, impoverished → 1942 Amer. dial.
► UNOOFY impoverished, poor → L19 sl.
► UP A TREE impoverished → M19 sl.

NOUNS
► POORING impoverishment → 1979
► SKINNING impoverishing, exhausting → 1888

NOUNS – PERSON
► ALLEY RAT a particularly unpleasant, villainous, and impoverished person → 1910s sl.
► BEGGARER one who beggars or impoverishes → 1630
► DEADBEAT of people: a failure, a down-and-out, an impoverished person; a person down on their luck; a jobless and homeless person → M19 sl., orig. US
► DEAD-BROKER a down-and-out, an impoverished person → L19 Aust. sl.
► DEAD ONE a useless, unsociable, impoverished, or mean person → L19 US sl.
► DEATH’S HEAD a miserable, impoverished, emaciated person → L18 sl.
► DEATH’S HEAD UPON A MOPSTICK a miserable, impoverished, emaciated person → 1794
► HARD-UP a hard-up, poor, destitute, or impoverished person → 1830 colloq.
► HAVE-NOTHING one who has nothing; a poor, impoverished, or destitute person; usually in plural → 1755 colloq.
► POOR WHITE an impoverished White person of low social status, esp. when regarded as uneducated or uncultured → 1781 chiefly US, often derogatory
► QUEER DUKE an impoverished gentleman → L17 UK criminals’ sl.
► RAG-ASS an impoverished person → 1990s African-American sl.
► RAGGEDYASS a disreputable or impoverished person or place → 2009 Amer. sl. (Bk.)

PHRASES
► AT BUSHEY PARK ► IN BUSHEY PARK poor, impoverished → E19 sl.

VERBS
► APPLY THE ACID to render impoverished → 1900s sl.
► BEGGAR to impoverish; generally used of land → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► DEAD-BROKE to impoverish → M19
► EMPOVER to impoverish, to make poor → 1474 obs.
► ERUMNATE to impoverish, to make poor or miserable → 1692 obs.
► FAIL UP to become impoverished; to go bankrupt → 1890 Amer. dial.
► IMPOOR to make poor; to impoverish → 1613 obs.
► PLY THE ACID to render impoverished → 1900s sl.
► PUT THE ACID ON to render impoverished → 1900s sl.
► SCRATCH A BEGGAR’S ASS to be impoverished → 1767 Amer. sl.
► TINSEL to subject to loss; to impoverish → 1475 Sc. obs.
► TRY THE ACID to render impoverished → 1900s sl.
► UNCLEW ► UNCLUE to impoverish → 1607