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

They flocked to her, though she did not pauperize them by giving her services free.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

I asked whether this provision of gratis food did in fact pauperize the population, as has been alleged.

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider

Probably no man living does that or ever did, and the practice of it on a large scale would pauperize the community.

From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks