pauperize

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Arose Alexander R. Sheppard, great public spirit, great builder, to pave and light streets, lay sewers, plant trees, pauperize himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

But, after all, you may pauperize people almost as rapidly in the attic as in the almshouse.

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

"I doubt it; it would be more likely to pauperize the whole nation."

From A Crooked Path A Novel by Alexander, Mrs.

The manner of giving it has changed, however, that it may be free from all tendency to pauperize or to deprive the recipient of self-respecting effort.

From The Making of a Trade School by Woolman, Mary Schenck