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

We ought not to pauperize them at all.

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

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

From Regeneration by Haggard, Henry Rider

"I doubt it; it would be more likely to pauperize the whole nation."

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.