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
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
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
“Don’t those things tend to pauperize the poor?”
From Outside Inn by Kelley, Ethel M. (Ethel May)
