pauperize

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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

The manner of giving it has changed, however, that it may be free from all tendency to pauperize or to deprive the recipient of self-respecting effort.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck

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

You can pauperize me, and you can take away every rag I have on my back, too, if you want to, but I'll tell you one thing, you can't take away my independence.

From The Fifth Wheel A Novel by Prouty, Olive Higgins