pauperize

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

This same unsensitiveness to routine had enhanced his value with Slocum-Hines from delivery boy at fifteen to second-assistant buyer at twenty-five, an amenability, however, that threatened to pauperize him of any capacity for play.

From Star-Dust by Fannie Hurst

Let us not pauperize ourselves by our very importunity.

From The Threshold Grace by Percy C. Ainsworth

That furnishing free books tends to pauperize the community and to discourage the purchase of books for home use.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick

"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

It had turned the cities into beehives inhabited by pauperized and unhealthy mobs of runaway peasants.

From The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem Van Loon

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

But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.

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

Formerly he talked of pauperizing the whole people, of socializing them, of a number of other direful evils to be dreaded as consequences of all free schools.

From Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada by J. Harold Putnam