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* {{quote-book, year=1815, author=Joseph Coppinger, title=The American Practical Brewer and Tanner, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1837, author=Edward Bulwer-Lytton, title=Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1856, author=Austin Steward, title=Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=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. }}

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Make poor.

Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.

''That exuberant crop quickly impoverishes any fertile soil

Become poor.