pauperize

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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

There were some women who hesitated before they consented to pauperize themselves by marrying.

From What eight million women want by Dorr, Rheta Childe

Which course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly?

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert

Hitherto, however, to a large extent, endowed charities, it must be admitted, have tended to weaken the family and to pauperize.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various