pauperize
verb (used with object)
to make a pauper of.
pauperise
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a variation of
pauperize.
Example Sentences
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The companies were not slow in helping to swell public subscriptions and in assisting to pauperise the labouring class.
From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Francis Aiden Hibbert
No landlord has the right to pauperise his tenantry by giving them money and their homes rent-free.
From Peg O' My Heart by J. Hartley Manners
Most of them thought this would pauperise him.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
No, sir, don’t think you can pauperise me.
From The Tale of Timber Town by Alfred A. (Alfred Augustus) Grace
A big windfall would not pauperise a man.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
