render barren or unfertile
1impoverish — v. a. 1. Make poor, bring to want, reduce to poverty, reduce to indigence. 2. Exhaust the fertility of, make sterile, render barren or unfertile …
2addle — I. a. 1. Addled, spoiled (as eggs), rotten, putrid, corrupt. 2. Barren, unfruitful, fruitless, abortive, unproductive, unprolific, unfertile, sterile, infecund, addled. II. v. a. 1. Corrupt, spoil, render barren. See preceding. 2. Accumulate… …
3neuter — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. sexless, unsexual; emasculated, castrated, gelded. v. t. emasculate, castrate, geld; spay, fix. See impotence.Ant., male, female. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. barren, infertile, sexless, asexual,… …