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

That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.

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

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

But, after all, you may pauperize people almost as rapidly in the attic as in the almshouse.

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