pauperize AmE
pauperise BrE

"I wanted to know why our society was willing to pauperize a man of such integrity," he said.

Most of them thought this would pauperize him.

They will pauperize me & I still feel absurd in them."

In their search for financial security, they may unwittingly pauperize themselves .

His attempts to disinherit me for no good reason will come back to pauperize him, I assure you.

"Gentlemen, I shall pauperize my- self to make good these sums.

A big windfall would not pauperize a man.

He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.

It wont pauperize me, you bet.

"And it wasn't your intention that he should pauperize himself getting to Deepsoil Five?

You can't let someone pauperize you!"

Lily would pauperize him in the ensuing divorce, while his mother would stomp on the remaining crumbs of his self-esteem.

He shows how the Reich was enabled to identify the Jews everywhere in Europe and then systematically pauperize and destroy them.

New York law permits elderly and disabled people to pauperize themselves to qualify for home care services; the law does not make adult children financially responsible for their parents.

The practice has created a swelling corps of lawyers who help people to pauperize themselves legally and has prompted an intense ethical debate over whether people with money should benefit from a medical program intended for the poor.

And since older people need three to four times as much health care as people under 65, their routine medical bills can strain their and their children's budgets, while their more serious illnesses can pauperize them.

Between 1988 and 1992 Lloyd's recorded losses of some twelve billion US dollars, and Raphael wrote that it thus managed to "pauperize, if not bankrupt, as many as two in five of those who provided the market's capital."

Just as they were beginning to pull themselves out of poverty and enjoy the fruits of an economic boom that is transforming the continent, millions of Asians are facing an epidemic that threatens to kill them and pauperize their families.

Let's put it this way: King can no more dump his plant than a peasant with a vineyard on the slopes of Mount Vesuvius can abandon his holdings and pauperize his family simply because there will be an eruption someday.

Wealthy elites and the politicians they controlled, posing as guardians of the Federal treasury and individualistic values, argued that benefits would pauperize veterans or reward their shiftlessness or demean their patriotism, which if honest presumably required no cash payout.