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

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 Hurst, Fannie

Which course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly?

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert

How they pauperize and debauch those they try to raise!

From A Pessimist In Theory and Practice by Bird, Frederic Mayer