Immiserate

Quick meaning: Immiserate is a verb meaning (transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery.

Meaning

(transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery.

Example Sentences

These regimes will favor older people and contain and immiserate the young.

Higher inequality, in part the result of a real estate boom that immiserated some and enriched others, meant more wealth in the hands of the high-saving rich.

The fun, pleasurable aspect of playbor troubles scholars because it seems to suggest that playborers are not exploited; exploitation is supposed to be immiserating, not fun.

By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.

Word Forms

• immiserates
• immiserating
• immiserated

Synonyms for immiserate

Depending on context, synonyms include depauperate, destitute, pauperize, beggar, depauperize, embeggar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include immiserize, impoor, poor, impoverish, pauperize, depauperize.

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