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PAUPERIZE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pauperize mean?
• PAUPERIZE (verb)
The verb PAUPERIZE has 1 sense:
1. reduce to beggary
Familiarity information: PAUPERIZE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperize ... he / she / it pauperizes
Past simple: pauperized
Past participle: pauperized
-ing form: pauperizing
... he / she / it pauperizes Past simple: pauperized
Past participle: pauperized
-ing form: pauperizing
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce to beggary
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
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)
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