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PAUPERISE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperise ... he / she / it pauperises
Past simple: pauperised
Past participle: pauperised
-ing form: pauperising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce to beggary
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Hypernyms (to "pauperise" is one way to...):
impoverish (make poor)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
pauperisation (the act of making someone poor)
