Depauperize

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To free from paupers or pauperism. dated, transitive

    "in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise"

  2. 2
    To rescue from poverty. transitive

    "Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]"

  3. 3
    To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate). transitive

Synonyms

All synonyms
dispauperizedispauperize

Example

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"in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise"

Etymology

From de- + pauperize.

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