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    PAUPERIZE

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     I. (verb) 

    Verb forms

    Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperize  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it pauperizes  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past simple: pauperized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Past participle: pauperized  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    -ing form: pauperizing  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    Reduce to beggaryplay

    Synonyms:

    beggar; pauperise; pauperize

    Classified under:

    Verbs of buying, selling, owning

    Hypernyms (to "pauperize" is one way to...):

    impoverish (make poor)

    Sentence frame:

    Something ----s somebody

    Derivation:

    pauper (a person who is very poor)

    pauperization (the act of making someone poor)

    pauperization (a state of extreme poverty or destitution)

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