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

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

That furnishing free books tends to pauperize the community and to discourage the purchase of books for home use.

From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Bostwick, Arthur Elmore

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