pauperize
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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
Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
I asked whether this provision of gratis food did in fact pauperize the population, as has been alleged.
From Regeneration by Henry Rider Haggard
You can pauperize me, and you can take away every rag I have on my back, too, if you want to, but I'll tell you one thing, you can't take away my independence.
From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Olive Higgins Prouty
"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
She died, and left him broken-hearted and poor, impoverished by the doctors, and pauperized by the undertaker.
From A Perilous Secret by Charles Reade
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
But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.
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
One case which interested me greatly was of "pauperizing" a bird.
From Upon The Tree-Tops by Olive Thorne Miller
