Verb (used with object), : His extravagance pauperized him.    From Dictionary.com. 

Labour's tax credit policies will just 'pauperise' more people, as Melanie Phillips points out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Sun Says - will David Cameron listen?] Reference

You made me pauperise her father, Sim; I'm sorry it was not worse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doom Castle] Reference

So as not to pauperise the people, subscriptions of one penny a week were asked from every house in the town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

Inflation targeting should not pauperise working South Africans, the Federation of Unions of South Africa (Fedusa) said on.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

The effect of this was to pauperise for the time the whole labouring population, and that the ratepayers, employing no labourers themselves, had to help to pay for those who did!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fragments of Two Centuries Glimpses of Country Life when George III. was King] Reference

"To fight inflation is not to pauperise people, but rather to give the millions of unemployed in this country a chance of earning a decent living in a stable financial environment," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

Is Brown so hard pressed for cash, despite his already massive tax robbery, that's he now sunk so low as to try to scare our pensioners witless and to further pauperise a proportion of them in order to cut back on the cost of rebates?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Navy 15 Press Conference] Reference

His career has been punctuated by indecision at crucial moments, and it is equally possible we will hear nothing more from him over the next six weeks aside from his normal clichéd views on the threat from India, China, the beauty of tax credits and the need to pauperise Africa.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I'll do it my way'] Reference

We must avoid anything that tends to pauperise the working classes. '.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thyrza] Reference

'I hope you do not intend to pauperise your patients,' was his first greeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Uncle Max] Reference

The billionaires, these greediest rats, gained most from the Great Pyramid; pauperise them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mathaba Highlights Briefing] Reference

You are like a rich man who can afford to pay for things, and I think you rather pauperise people.    From Wordnik.com.  [Watersprings] Reference

We have forgotten that wealth generates revenue, while high taxes crush prosperity and pauperise nations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spectator Live] Reference

His name was known far and near, as that of a powerful and cruel speculator, who did not hesitate to pauperise his nearest friends if they placed themselves in his reach.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Ambitious Man] Reference

They note that the country is in the grip of inflationary pressures which would further pauperise all those on fixed incomes, and make our non-energy exports uncompetitive.    From Wordnik.com.  [TrinidadExpress Today's News] Reference

For example, it is very easy to give money away, and no doubt I could dispose of my surplus, or part of my surplus, in that fashion, but I have no wish to pauperise anyone, or to do mischief by indiscriminate charity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Doings of Raffles Haw] Reference

Money was apportioned for the supplying of destitute families with furniture and the instruments of trade; the object in view was not to pauperise them, but to afford them the opportunity for becoming self-supporting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out To Win The Story of America in France] Reference

As a West India merchant, Mr. Hawkins one day sent me down to Albury a hogshead of sugar and some sacks of rice, to be given (or, as he preferred it, sold at half price for honour's sake and not to pauperise) to my poorer neighbours for a Christmas gift.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Life as an Author]

Now, if these 800 families (some say half) have claims amounting to £30 each individually (say 400 families at £30), £12,000 paid at once would rid the colony of the cost of subsistence of these families, viz. £600 a month (the retention of them would only add to the colonial expenditure, and tend to pauperise them).    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of Gordon, Volume II] Reference

Besides, if we pauperise Germany, no one -- not even Belgium -- will get a pound of indemnity. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The War After the War] Reference

"For one thing I would not have them pauperise two of the finest things in this world and the best worth fighting for -- Education and Literature.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches] Reference

West Bengal’s economy today is growing fast but the state is dead set against GM crops that create large agricultural corporates and pauperise the small farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Firedoglake » The Long Suck] Reference

With loathsome hypocrisy we repair a prince's palace for him, and let him live in it rent-free, without one word about the degradation involved in his thus living upon charity; while we refuse to 'pauperise' the toiler by erecting decent buildings in which he may live ” not rent-free like the prince, but only paying a rent which shall cover the cost of erection and maintenance, instead of one which gives a yearly profit to a speculator.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Autobiography]

It must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound of tea a year, which was weak in him: first, because all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperise the recipient, and secondly, because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity would have been to buy it for as little as he could possibly give, and sell it for as much as he could possibly get; it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty of man-not a part of man's duty, but the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Times] Reference

It must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound of tea a year, which was weak in him: first, because all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperise the recipient, and secondly, because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity would have been to buy it for as little as he could possibly give, and sell it for as much as he could possibly get; it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty of man - not a part of man's duty, but the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Times]

But I suppose you have reflected that to give alms to the able-bodied is to pauperise them. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lady Paramount] Reference

"I can;" interrupted Godfrey; "and I tell you, you will pauperise the whole village, besides teaching my sister false notions of her duty to the poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times] Reference

It must be admitted that he allowed her half a pound of tea a year, which was weak in him: first, because all gifts have an inevitable tendency to pauperise the recipient, and secondly, because his only reasonable transaction in that commodity would have been to buy it for as little as he could possibly give, and sell it for as much as he could possibly get; it having been clearly ascertained by philosophers that in this is comprised the whole duty of man — not a part of man’s duty, but the whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hard Times] Reference

A big windfall would not pauperise a man.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference

Most of them thought this would pauperise him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Howards End] Reference