dispauper

American

[dis-paw-per] / dɪsˈpɔ pər /

verb (used with object)

Law.

to divest of the status of a person having the privileges of a pauper, as of public support or of legal rights as a pauper.

First recorded in 1625–35; dis- ¹ + pauper

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