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pauperize

verb

Etymology

From pauper + -ize.

  1. learned borrowing from pauper — “poor”
  2. suffixed as pauperize — “pauper + ize”

Definitions

  1. To make someone a pauper

    To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.

    • Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere. It was all pauperized. The very bushes might have been on welfare.
    • He (Lee Kuan Yew) and his associates jailed opponents or pauperized them through civil court cases alleging slander or other misdemeanors.

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