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
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 Sir Walter Besant
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 Arthur Elmore Bostwick
That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.
From As We Are and As We May Be by Sir Walter Besant
"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
You’ve pauperized and degraded us long enough—” “Thou canst not say I—” Peter began.
From Turn About Eleanor by F. Graham Cootes
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
But by humiliating and pauperizing Germany, the victors contributed to the conditions out of which Nazism arose.
From Time Magazine Archive
He recoups by stealing the family jewels of the cousin's fiance, pauperizing him in a single stroke and canceling the marriage vows.
From Time Magazine Archive
Coal operators were flayed for "pauperizing" the industry, the U. S. Government was asked to lend a helping hand.
From Time Magazine Archive
If it gives you pleasure to assist in pauperizing any number of your fellow creatures, pray do so.
From The Malefactor by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
