pauperize

Example Sentences

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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

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

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 Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

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

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider