immiserate
Americanverb (used with object)
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to make miserable.
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to cause to become impoverished.
Other Word Forms
- immiseration noun
Example Sentences
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Blake was lamenting the rise of the machine-filled factory, too, because he saw the way that it stood to blight communities and immiserate workers.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 31, 2023
The factors that immiserate travelers benefit retail sectors that would otherwise struggle in airports the way they do in the real world.
From Slate • Sep. 7, 2017
Most of the factors that immiserate their customers fall outside their influence.
From Slate • Apr. 14, 2017
In their home ecosystems these species have, like all living things, a full complement of parasites, microbes, viruses, and insect predators to shorten and immiserate their lives.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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