pauperize
Example Sentences
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Runaway price boosts might wipe out savings, pauperize individuals, bring down governments —but usually in only one or a few countries at any specific time, and for what seemed fairly clear reasons.
From Time Magazine Archive
Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir
"You cannot pauperize a man who has absolutely nothing," replied Paul.
From The Sowers by Merriman, Henry Seton
Shall he pauperize himself just for a cousin?
From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney
