pauperize

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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

Shall he pauperize himself just for a cousin?

From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney

This policy was found to pauperize him and to unfit him for the competitions of civilized life.

From The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5 July 1906 by Various

"A doctor has no right to pauperize people"—he said "pauper-wize people"—"any more than any one else."

From The Side Of The Angels A Novel by King, Basil