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depauperize en · VERB

Etymology

From de- + pauperize.

Meanings

1. (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism.
   • 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 1869, Florence Nightingale, A Note on Pauperism:
2. (transitive) To rescue from poverty.
   • 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 […] 2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States, page 24:
3. (transitive) To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

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Synonyms

pauperize · poverish · depauperate · ruin · embeggar · depauperize · impoverish · poor · impoor · destitute · beggar · depauperate · pauperize · ruin · dispauperize · empoverish · immiserate