adj. 25B6; adjective
an impoverished peasant farmer : POOR, poverty-stricken, penniless, destitute, indigent, impecunious, needy, pauperized, down and out, on the breadline; bankrupt, ruined, insolvent; informal (flat) broke, stony broke, on one's uppers, hard up, without a bean, on skid row; Brit. informal skint; N. Amer. informal stone broke; formal penurious.
the soil is impoverished : WEAKENED, exhausted, drained, sapped, depleted, spent; barren, unproductive, unfertile.
rich.