What does depauperize mean?
Depauperize means (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · verb
(dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism..
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
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 […]
Use depauperize when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Depauperize means (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism..
Common synonyms include dispauperize, depauperate, pauperize, ruin.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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
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