IMPOVERISHED

adj. 1 destitute, poor, poverty-stricken, penurious, beggared, needy, necessitous, impecunious, in sore or bad straits, straitened, in distress, badly off, bankrupt, insolvent, ruined, Colloq (dead or flat) broke, stony-broke, bad off, pinched, up against it, on one's uppers, short, US strapped, wiped out, Slang Brit skint A series of failed harvests left many farmers impoverished 2 stripped, barren, desolate, wasted, empty, depleted, denuded, drained, exhausted Two years of drought left the land impoverished