English Explanatory Dictionary

pauperize

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb

To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.

Word forms

pauperize pauperizes pauperizing pauperized pauperise

Etymology

From pauper + -ize.

Synonyms

beggar depauperate destitute depauperize embeggar empoverish immiserate impoor impoverish pauperize poor poverish ruin

Derived words

depauperize dispauperize pauperization pauperizer unpauperized

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