Pauperize
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Pauperize is a verb meaning (transitive) To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
Meaning
(transitive) To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
Example Sentences
He (Lee Kuan Yew) and his associates jailed opponents or pauperized them through civil court cases alleging slander or other misdemeanors.
Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere. It was all pauperized. The very bushes might have been on welfare.
This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned.
Word Forms
- pauperizes
- pauperizing
- pauperized
- pauperise
Synonyms for pauperize
Depending on context, synonyms include beggar, depauperate, destitute, depauperize, embeggar, empoverish.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include beggar, pauperise, pauper, depauperize, poor, depauperise.
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