Pauperize
verb
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 To make someone a pauper; to impoverish. transitive
"This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned."
- 2 reduce to beggary wordnet
Antonyms
All antonymsExample
More examples"This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned."
Etymology
From pauper + -ize.