Depauperize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Depauperize is a verb meaning (transitive) To rescue from poverty.
Meaning
(transitive) To rescue from poverty.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).
- (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism.
Example Sentences
Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]
in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise
Word Forms
- depauperizes
- depauperizing
- depauperized
Synonyms for depauperize
Depending on context, synonyms include dispauperize, depauperate, pauperize, ruin, beggar, destitute.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include depauperise, dispauperize, dispauperise, depauperate, pauperize, pauperise.
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