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Verb: pauperize  'po-pu`rIz
  1. Reduce to beggary
    "The chief defect of the old system was that it tended to pauperize the aided states"
    - beggar, pauperise [Brit]

Derived forms: pauperizing, pauperizes, pauperized

See also: pauper, pauperization

Type of: impoverish

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