Pauperise (Verb)
Meaning
Reduce to beggary.
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The company's bankruptcy would pauperise the entire workforce, leaving them without any means of supporting their families.
- A lifetime of poverty threatened to pauperise her, stripping her of any dignity or self-respect.
- The sudden loss of her home would pauperise the elderly woman, forcing her to rely on charity to survive.
- Years of addiction had begun to pauperise him, reducing him to a life of scraps and handouts.
- The collapse of the economy would pauperise the majority of the population, pushing them below the poverty line.