impoor

English

Etymology

From im- +‎ poor

Verb

impoor (third-person singular simple present impoors, present participle impooring, simple past and past participle impoored)

(obsolete, transitive) To impoverish.
- 1614, William Browne, The Shepheard's Pipe:
  Neither waves, nor thieves, nor fire
  Nor have rots impoor'd this Sire

References

“impoor”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.