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PAUPERIZE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperize ... he / she / it pauperizes
Past simple: pauperized
-ing form: pauperizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pauperize" is one way to...):
impoverish (make poor)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
pauper (a person who is very poor)
pauperization (the act of making someone poor)
pauperization (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)