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

Her development came when the church made another future possible to her by refusing to pauperize the family.

From The Leaven in a Great City by Betts, Lillian William

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

Cheque-charity may harden the heart of him who gives, and pauperize him who takes.

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