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pauperize

[paw-puh-rahyz] / ˈpɔ pəˌraɪz /


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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

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

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

We ought not to pauperize them at all.

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