to pauperize

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• Since then, thousands of UN troops have provided security for a discredited political system, while global financial institutions have imposed a relentlessly neoliberal diet, pauperizing Haitians still further.

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• Rising unemployment rates can pauperize communities, leading to widespread hardship and despair.

• The mechanization of agriculture forced millions of people off their family farms into the big cities, where they were forced to compete with millions more pauperized immigrants arriving from Europe as hands in the new industrial economy.

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• Just as important, the continued dislocation of the pauperized mass by war and indirect colonization resituates the balance of forces upon which the money form and its associated financial system present themselves as symbols of power structures.

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• Technology has not only done harm to poor people in our own American society; one can draw up an equally damning indictment against scientists for our contributions to the widening split between rich and poor on an international scale, to the worldwide spread of a technology that pauperizes nations and enriches elites.

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• White veteran and politician Manuel Sanguily elaborated: "We pauperized and ruined ourselves on their blacks' account...; we suffered as they did, indeed more than they did, and bravely fought for our own liberty and for their manumission.

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• The economic crisis has pauperized many families, leaving them without basic necessities.

• The sudden loss of income pauperized him overnight, forcing him to rely on charity for food.

Synonyms

I

to impoverish

vsto pauperize

14 6.7

Make a person, community, or land poor

focuses specifically on causing extreme poverty rather than general loss

B

to beggar

vsto pauperize

1 6.5

To make someone very poor so they must ask for money

is more extreme producing utter poverty rather than just dependence on charity

Antonyms

E

to enrich

42 3.9

To make a person or country richer by giving them money

How Poor

ruin

100 3.2

to pauperize

• Formal

1 9.9

to impoverish

14 6.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology