pauperize
Americanverb (used with object)
verb
Other Word Forms
- pauperization noun
- pauperizer noun
Etymology
Origin of pauperize
Example Sentences
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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
“Don’t those things tend to pauperize the poor?”
From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
But, after all, you may pauperize people almost as rapidly in the attic as in the almshouse.
From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert
That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir
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