pauperize
Americanverb (used with object)
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Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
"You cannot pauperize a man who has absolutely nothing," replied Paul.
From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton
"They're not well off, but we mustn't on any account pauperize them," was her verdict.
From The Princess of the School by Wiles, Frank
“Sure they do,” Billy agreed, “only Nancy has kind of given up her struggle not to pauperize them.”
From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
"Citizens are being pauperized left, right and centre, why does the citizenry of this country deserve so uncaring & heartless a leadership?"
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Iran, after all, is not the only Muslim country with an urban westernized elite that’s been decimated by dictatorship and pauperized by decades of war.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Haiti was immediately quarantined and pauperized into the forced dysfunction of a postcolonial state,” literary scholar Nick Nesbitt has written, “hamstrung by the terrified slave-holding powers that then controlled the globe.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
“Massive economic mismanagement coupled with spiraling corruption have pauperized large segments of the Arab people,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2019
When other groups of citizens meet together to consult over their common affairs, or to engage in common activities, they are not pauperized by the community.
From Exempting the Churches An Argument for the Abolition of This Unjust and Unconstitutional Practice by James F. Morton. Jr.
Banks stopped giving out money, instantly pauperizing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, who couldn’t access their accounts even as they watched the value of their savings wither away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Coal operators were flayed for "pauperizing" the industry, the U. S. Government was asked to lend a helping hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
He recoups by stealing the family jewels of the cousin's fiance, pauperizing him in a single stroke and canceling the marriage vows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.*
From Time Magazine Archive
It is associated with the thought of doling out alms, of pauperizing people and of making them dependent on others instead of arousing their power to help themselves.
From Religion And Health by Walsh, James J. (James Joseph)
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