cur-@rivercitybicycles.com
2002-01-23
I had to look up "depauperate" on dictionary.com. Here it is:
de?pau?pe?rate (d-p?pr-t)
adj.
Arrested in growth or development; stunted.
Severely diminished; impoverished: ?But there were no pleasures in Australia. How could my friend admire so paleontologically depauperate a place?? (Jake Page).
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[Middle English depauperat, from Medieval Latin dpaupertus, past participle of dpauperre, to make poor : Latin d-, de- + pauper, poor; see pauper.]
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de?paupe?ration (-p-rshn) n.
(I still don't understand what that last guy meant... about the sugar, etc.)