Translation for 'to impoverish sth' from English to French

to impoverish sb./sth.

appauvrir qn./qc.

to impoverish sth. [soil]

épuiser qc. [sol]agr.

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to nest sth. in sth. [to place one part inside another]

emboîter qc. dans qc.

to balance sth. with sth. [e.g. work and family]

concilier qc. avec qc. [p. ex. famille et travail]occup.

to be dying for sb./sth. to do sth. [idiom]

souhaiter désespérément que qn./qc. fasse qc.

to have sth. on sb./sth. [e.g. hopes]

placer qc. dans qn./qc. [espoirs]

to use sth. as an excuse for doing sth.

prétexter de qc. pour faire qc.

to lock sth. to sth. [e.g. a bicycle]

attacher qc. à qc. [bicyclette]bicyc.

to coat sth. with sth. [e.g. with chocolate]

enrober qc. de qc. [fruits, dragées, etc. de chocolat, etc.]cuis.

to cover sth. with sth. [by stretching it over]

tendre qc. de qc.

to slather sth. on / onto sth. [coll.] [apply thickly]

enduire qc. de qc.

to give more importance to sth. than to sth. else

privilégier qc. sur qc. d'autre

to use sth. as an excuse to do sth.

s'autoriser de qc. pour faire qc.

to ascribe sth. to sth. [e.g. a value]

assigner qc. à qc. [valeur]

to give sth. as a reason for doing sth.

arguer qc. pour faire qc.

to provide sb./sth. with fresh supplies of sth. [troops, town]

ravitailler qn./qc. en qc. [vivres]mil.

to provide a link between sth. and sth.

jeter une passerelle entre qc. et qc. [fig.]

to find sth. to say about sb./sth.

trouver qc. à dire sur qn./qc.

to lard sth. with sth. [quotations, etc.] [fig.]

truffer qc. de qc. [citations, etc.] [fig.]

sharing out of sth. (between sb./sth.)

répartition {f} de qc. [argent, biens, travail, rôles] (entre qn./qc.)

to strike a balance between sth. and sth.

trouver le juste milieu entre deux choses

to load sb./sth. with sth. [fig.] [to excess]

abreuver qn./qc. de qc.

• Unlike civilian demolition, military house demolition is also often intended to destroy property "within" a building, such as food or personal effects, either to deny its use to an enemy or to impoverish the civilian occupants.
• Late in Twain's life, he had, through imprudent investments and more than a little bad luck, managed to impoverish himself.
• reflected poorly on Joseph's character, as to seize the surplus produce and then compel the Egyptians to impoverish themselves to buy it back was not consistent with justice and equity.
• Ngoni agricultural practices of shifting or slash-and-burn cultivation and overstocking cattle were said to impoverish the soil and promoted the spread of the tsetse fly.
• Crucially, he distinguished the roles of "savings" and "investment" – since only investment is directly productive, savings may be harmful to the economy, and may "tend to impoverish others" – a form of the paradox of thrift.

• Hence to present a humanism without placing the transcendent at its center is to impoverish human beings; it will be the greatest injustice to them.