pauperize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
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Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
It has opposed to every proposal of social reform an obstacle that seemed insuperable,—the danger of a rapid overincrease of population that would pauperize the community.
From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Leacock, Stephen
I have no shame, Mr. Hay—I'm going to let you pay for your own dinner because I cannot in these democratic times pauperize you by paying for you.
From The Book of All-Power by Wallace, Edgar
I asked whether this provision of gratis food did in fact pauperize the population, as has been alleged.
From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider
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