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
A limited endowment fund would be helpful, but too large endowment tends to pauperize a local institution.
From Society Its Origin and Development by Henry Kalloch Rowe
Shall he pauperize himself just for a cousin?
From The "Goldfish" by Arthur Cheney Train
Probably no man living does that or ever did, and the practice of it on a large scale would pauperize the community.
From Recollections and Impressions 1822-1890 by Octavius Brooks Frothingham
"Citizens are being pauperized left, right and centre, why does the citizenry of this country deserve so uncaring & heartless a leadership?"
From BBC ● May 27, 2025
Iran, after all, is not the only Muslim country with an urban westernized elite that’s been decimated by dictatorship and pauperized by decades of war.
From New York Times ● Oct. 21, 2021
“Haiti was immediately quarantined and pauperized into the forced dysfunction of a postcolonial state,” literary scholar Nick Nesbitt has written, “hamstrung by the terrified slave-holding powers that then controlled the globe.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 4, 2021
“Massive economic mismanagement coupled with spiraling corruption have pauperized large segments of the Arab people,” said Fawaz Gerges, a professor of international relations at the London School of Economics.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2019
They are, however, poor, often in need, sometimes pauperized, and, as a general rule, their lives are short and miserable.
From Analyzing Character by Katherine M. H. Blackford
Banks stopped giving out money, instantly pauperizing hundreds of thousands of Lebanese, who couldn’t access their accounts even as they watched the value of their savings wither away.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 23, 2021
Coal operators were flayed for "pauperizing" the industry, the U. S. Government was asked to lend a helping hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three years ago it would have been hard to find one of them who would not have been ready to denounce the pauperizing effect of the dole.*
From Time Magazine Archive
There is no danger of pauperizing a community in giving for such purposes, because such institutions relieve temporary ailments or shelter only those who are hopeless invalids.
From The Library and Society Reprints of Papers and Addresses by Arthur Elmore Bostwick
