PAUPERIZE

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperize ... he / she / it pauperizes

Past simple: pauperized

Past participle: pauperized

-ing form: pauperizing

Meaning:

Reduce to beggary

Synonyms:

beggar; pauperise; pauperize

Classified under:

Verbs of buying, selling, owning

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)