PAUPERIZE

beggar, pauperize, pauperise

(verb) reduce to beggary

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

pauperize (third-person singular simple present pauperizes, present participle pauperizing, simple past and past participle pauperized)

To make someone a pauper; to impoverish

Source: Wiktionary


Pau"per*ize, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pauperized; p. pr. & vb. n. Pauperizing.]

Definition: To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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