Verb (used with object), : His extravagance pauperized him. From Dictionary.com.
Let us not pauperize ourselves by our very importunity. From Wordnik.com. [The Threshold Grace] Reference
She could even pauperize the wretched man if she were of a mind to. From Wordnik.com. [Tender Rebel]
How can we rescue them from poverty and illiteracy, and not pauperize them?. From Wordnik.com. [The American Missionary — Volume 43, No. 01, January, 1889] Reference
A limited endowment fund would be helpful, but too large endowment tends to pauperize a local institution. From Wordnik.com. [Society Its Origin and Development] Reference
Just because most nations don't yet pauperize those who didn't earn all their own wealth doesn't mean that we admire these individuals. From Wordnik.com. [SonyBay] Reference
Eight years of economic and fiscal policies designed to pauperize them and redistribute wealth upwards was more than enough, and even Oba. From Wordnik.com. [Howie Klein: High Priced Republican Party Propaganda Campaign Seeks To Undermine Workers' Free Choice] Reference
Eight years of economic and fiscal policies designed to pauperize them and redistribute wealth upwards was more than enough, and even Oba ... digg. From Wordnik.com. [Howie Klein: High Priced Republican Party Propaganda Campaign Seeks To Undermine Workers' Free Choice] Reference
The manner of giving it has changed, however, that it may be free from all tendency to pauperize or to deprive the recipient of self-respecting effort. From Wordnik.com. [The Making of a Trade School] Reference
Labour-rate Act was to employ the people on unproductive labour, its direct tendency was not only to pauperize the country, but to run it into complete ruin. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines] Reference
Roosevelt insisted that Executive Order 9-0-6-6 was necessary to save American lives — only to watch him use that Order to imprison and pauperize 110-thousand Americans. From Wordnik.com. [corpus] Reference
How they pauperize and debauch those they try to raise!. From Wordnik.com. [A Pessimist In Theory and Practice] Reference
Which course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly?. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize. From Wordnik.com. [As We Are and As We May Be] Reference
"I doubt it; it would be more likely to pauperize the whole nation.". From Wordnik.com. [A Crooked Path A Novel] Reference
Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not?. From Wordnik.com. [Seven English Cities] Reference
The best way to get rid of the pauper spirit is to pauperize some one else. From Wordnik.com. [The Joys of Being a Woman and Other Papers] Reference
Who needs the votes of state populations you're planning to pauperize, anyway?. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice] Reference
Cheque-charity may harden the heart of him who gives, and pauperize him who takes. From Wordnik.com. [As We Are and As We May Be] Reference
They flocked to her, though she did not pauperize them by giving her services free. From Wordnik.com. [The Second Generation] Reference
"They're not well off, but we mustn't on any account pauperize them," was her verdict. From Wordnik.com. [The Princess of the School] Reference
The system under which he operates tends to pauperize instead of developing self-respect. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Afro-American Group of the Episcopal Church] Reference
He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it. From Wordnik.com. [Life on the Mississippi] Reference
But, after all, you may pauperize people almost as rapidly in the attic as in the almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
O'Reilly better be looking for a high-priced attorney, one that will pauperize him hopefully. From Wordnik.com. [WHAT REALLY HAPPENED] Reference
Indeed, a nuclear Iran will control the Middle East as well as Europe and thereby pauperize America. From Wordnik.com. [Political Mavens] Reference
I asked whether this provision of gratis food did in fact pauperize the population, as has been alleged. From Wordnik.com. [Regeneration] Reference
And so we sympathize with Andrew Carnegie in his endeavor to live up to his dictum to die poor, and yet not pauperize the world by his wealth. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
There is nothing wholesome in the question whether it is better to pauperize people a little in the attic, or to pauperize them altogether in the almshouse. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
Don't pauperize me any more and make me feel mean. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder] Reference
What course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly? ". From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
It wont pauperize me, you bet. From Wordnik.com. [Act II] Reference
It won't pauperize me, you bet. From Wordnik.com. [Pygmalion] Reference
We ought not to pauperize them at all. From Wordnik.com. [White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor] Reference
A big windfall would not pauperize a man. From Wordnik.com. [Howards End]
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