Impoverished
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

3 letters

DRY
A reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages

LOW
The lowest forward gear ratio in the gear box of a motor vehicle; used to start a car moving

4 letters

THIN
Take off weight

SLIM
Take off weight

SLIM
Take off weight

LEAN
The property possessed by a line or surface that departs from the vertical; "the tower had a pronounced tilt"; "the ship developed a list to starboard"; "he walked with a heavy inclination to the right"

MEAN
Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood"

PUNY
(used especially of persons) of inferior size

HEEL
The lower end of a ship's mast

HARD
(of speech sounds); produced with the back of the tongue raised toward or touching the velum; "Russian distinguished between hard consonants and palatalized or soft consonants"

GONE
Destroyed or killed; "we are gone geese"

POOR
People without possessions or wealth (considered as a group); "the urban poor need assistance"

5 letters

NEEDY
Needy people collectively; "they try to help the needy"

UNFED
Not given support; "a grudge that remained unfed"

SPENT
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"

SPARE
A score in tenpins; knocking down all ten after rolling two balls

SMALL
The slender part of the back

SKIMP
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

SHORT
(of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range; "a short memory"

SCANT
Supply sparingly and with restricted quantities; "sting with the allowance"

EMPTY
A container that has been emptied; "return all empties to the store"

BROKE
Lacking funds; "`skint' is a British slang term"

NEEDY

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WATERY
Relating to or resembling or consisting of water; "a watery substance"; "a watery color"

WASTED
(of an organ or body part) diminished in size or strength as a result of disease or injury or lack of use; "partial paralysis resulted in an atrophied left arm"

USEDUP

STINGY
Unwilling to spend; "she practices economy without being stingy"; "an ungenerous response to the appeal for funds"

SORDID
Meanly avaricious and mercenary; "sordid avarice"; "sordid material interests"

SLIGHT
A deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

SKIMPY
Containing little excess; "a lean budget"; "a skimpy allowance"

SCANTY
Short underpants for women or children (usually used in the plural)

RUINED
Doomed to extinction

PALTRY
Contemptibly small in amount; "a measly tip"; "the company donated a miserable $100 for flood relief"; "a paltry wage"; "almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"

NARROW
A narrow strait connecting two bodies of water

MEAGER
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

INRAGS

LENTEN
Of or relating to or suitable for Lent; "lenten food"

JEJUNE
Lacking in nutritive value; "the jejune diets of the very poor"

ILLOFF

FRUGAL
Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

ERODED
Worn away as by water or ice or wind

DILUTE
Corrupt, debase, or make impure by adding a foreign or inferior substance; often by replacing valuable ingredients with inferior ones; "adulterate liquor"

BARREN
Providing no shelter or sustenance; "bare rocky hills"; "barren lands"; "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"; "the desolate surface of the moon"; "a stark landscape"

EFFETE
Marked by excessive self-indulgence and moral decay; "a decadent life of excessive money and no sense of responsibility"; "a group of effete self-professed intellectuals"

BEREFT
Unhappy in love; suffering from unrequited love

BROKEN
Not continuous in space, time, or sequence or varying abruptly; "broken lines of defense"; "a broken cable transmission"; "broken sleep"; "tear off the stub above the broken line"; "a broken note"; "broken sobs"

HARDUP
Not having enough money to pay for necessities

INNEED

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WATERED
(of silk fabric) having a wavelike pattern

STUNTED
Inferior in size or quality; "scrawny cattle"; "scrubby cut-over pine"; "old stunted thorn trees"

STINTED

STARVED
Suffering from lack of food

SPARTAN
A resident of Sparta

POVERTY
The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

SLENDER
Being of delicate or slender build; "she was slender as a willow shoot is slender"- Frank Norris; "a slim girl with straight blonde hair"; "watched her slight figure cross the street"

SPARING
Avoiding waste; "an economical meal"; "an economical shopper"; "a frugal farmer"; "a frugal lunch"; "a sparing father and a spending son"; "sparing in their use of heat and light"; "stinting in bestowing gifts"; "thrifty because they remember the great Depression"; "`scotch' is used only informally"

SCRIMPY
Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare"

PINCHED
Not having enough money to pay for necessities

MISERLY
(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

MISERLY
(used of persons or behavior) characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip"

LIMITED
Public transport consisting of a fast train or bus that makes only a few scheduled stops; "he caught the express to New York"

SCRAWNY
Being very thin; "a child with skinny freckled legs"; "a long scrawny neck"

FORTUNE
An unknown and unpredictable phenomenon that leads to a favorable outcome; "it was my good luck to be there"; "they say luck is a lady"; "it was as if fortune guided his hand"

FLEECED

EATENUP

DWARFED

DRAINED
Emptied or exhausted of (as by drawing off e.g. water or other liquid); "a drained marsh"; "a drained tank"; "a drained and apathetic old man...not caring any longer about anything"

DENUDED
Without the natural or usual covering; "a bald spot on the lawn"; "bare hills"

BURNTUP

AUSTERE
Of a stern or strict bearing or demeanor; forbidding in aspect; "an austere expression"; "a stern face"

INWANTS

INWANTS

ASCETIC
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

ASCETIC
Someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline

ABLATED
Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization; "the rocket's ablated head shield"

WORNOUT
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"

WORNOUT
Drained of energy or effectiveness; extremely tired; completely exhausted; "the day's shopping left her exhausted"; "he went to bed dog-tired"; "was fagged and sweaty"; "the trembling of his played out limbs"; "felt completely washed-out"; "only worn-out horses and cattle"; "you look worn out"

8 letters

BADLYOFF

BANKRUPT
Someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

WORNAWAY

INDIGENT
Poor enough to need help from others

STRAPPED

STRIPPED
With clothing stripped off

UNDERFED
Not getting adequate food; "gaunt underfed children"; "badly undernourished"

STARVING
The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

ONRELIEF

FINISHED
(of skills or the products of skills) brought to or having the greatest excellence; perfected; "a dazzling and finished piece of writing"; "a finished violinist"

FAMISHED
Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"

DEPLETED
No longer sufficient; "supplies are low"; "our funds are depleted"

DEPRIVED
Marked by deprivation especially of the necessities of life or healthful environmental influences; "a childhood that was unhappy and deprived, the family living off charity"; "boys from a deprived environment, wherein the family life revealed a pattern of neglect, moral degradation, and disregard for law"

DESOLATE
Leave someone who needs or counts on you; leave in the lurch; "The mother deserted her children"

EXIGUOUS
Extremely scanty; "an exiguous budget"

DWARFISH
Atypically small; "dwarf tree"; "dwarf star"

BEGGARLY
(used of sums of money) so small in amount as to deserve contempt

BEREAVED
A person who has suffered the death of someone they loved; "the bereaved do not always need to be taken care of"

CONSUMED

BEGGARED

DIRTPOOR

WIPEDOUT
Destroyed financially; "the broken fortunes of the family"

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DESTITUTE
Completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning"