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

It has opposed to every proposal of social reform an obstacle that seemed insuperable,—the danger of a rapid overincrease of population that would pauperize the community.

From The Unsolved Riddle of Social Justice by Leacock, Stephen

Cheque-charity may harden the heart of him who gives, and pauperize him who takes.

From As We Are and As We May Be by Besant, Walter, Sir

He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.

From Life on the Mississippi, Part 10. by Twain, Mark