单词 | pauperize |
释义 | pauperizev. transitive. To make a pauper of; to reduce to the condition of a pauper, or to poverty or destitution; spec. to make dependent on public relief. 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 1806 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 15 Nov. 776 A full tenth part of our population we see pauperized. 1834 H. Martineau Moral Many Fables ii. 47 The indigent who have been pauperized by the undue depression of wages. 1868 E. H. Plumptre tr. Æschylus Choephori in tr. Æschylus Trag. II. 112 Unless my father's murderers I should chase..Stirred by the wrongs that pauperise my life. 1918 W. M. Kirkland Joys of being Woman iii. 33 The best way to get rid of the pauper spirit is to pauperize some one else. 1992 S. Sontag Volcano Lover ii. vi. 278 The urban masses, now further pauperized by the exit of capital with the flight of the old regime. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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