单词 | immiserate |
释义 | immiseratev. transitive. To make (a person or people) progressively poorer; to reduce to a state of complete poverty or misery; to impoverish. Cf. immiserize vb. at immiserization n. Derivatives. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)] destroy1297 poverisha1382 apoora1400 impover1418 poora1425 dispurveyc1430 impoverish1440 beggar1528 weaken1530 ruinate1547 ruin1560 depauper1562 depoverish1569 craze1573 soak1577 sift1591 waste1599 impoor1613 uncluea1616 depauperate1623 disenrich1647 necessitate1647 erumnate1676 straiten1699 poorify1711 pauperize1806 pauperate1839 pauper1841 to clear out1884 immiserate1956 penny-pincha1961 immiserize1971 1956 Solicitors' Jrnl. 100 599/1 The newly qualified solicitor or barrister is relatively immiserated. 1960 P. Ritner Death Afr. i. 18 The seasonal or chronic unemployment which immiserates the urban concentrations of Africa. 1979 Theory & Society 8 93 Marx is widely (and wrongly) believed to have thought that the advance of capitalism would progressively immiserate the majority of workers. 1991 Medicine Hat (Alberta) News 31 Oct. a12/6 The recession is widening and immiserating the working class. 2016 Hindustan Times (Nexis) 3 Oct. Other feminists have attacked Clinton..for supporting welfare reforms..that further immiserated single mothers. Derivatives imˈmiserated adj. ΚΠ 1956 G. Niemeyer & J. S. Reshetar Inq. Soviet Mentality iii. 37 The vast majority of the people..would then be composed of property-less and ‘immiserated’ workers. 1984 Econ. Hist. Rev. 37 293 An immiserated proletariat exploited by monopoly capitalists. 2015 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 6 Perhaps du Fresne prefers that people remain immiserated, free to suffer poor health and even death. imˈmiserating adj. ΚΠ 1962 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 70 517/1 The model can turn up immiserating growth paths. 1985 E. W. Soja in D. Gregory & J. Urry Social Relations & Spatial Structures vi. 107 French Marxism did expand under the immiserating conditions of global economic crisis in the 1920s. 2017 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 4 Feb. 18 Saunders said financial stability..had shifted his focus from the immiserating effects of hardship. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1956 |
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