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
There were some women who hesitated before they consented to pauperize themselves by marrying.
From What eight million women want by Dorr, Rheta Childe
He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.
From Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. by Twain, Mark
Let us not pauperize ourselves by our very importunity.
From The Threshold Grace by Ainsworth, Percy C.
