pauperize in a sentence
v. t.
📚 Grade Level: Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
Definition
To pauperize means to make someone extremely poor or to reduce them to a state of poverty.
Crossword clues for pauperize
Crossword clue ideas and answer hints for the word "pauperize".
- Make someone lose all their wealth.
- Reduce someone to financial ruin.
- Drive a person into poverty.
- Strip away all of one's riches.
- Render someone destitute and broke.
Pauperize sentence examples
- The economic policies implemented during the recession threatened to pauperize entire communities.
- Many families found themselves pauperized after losing their homes to foreclosure.
- The sudden loss of her job could pauperize someone who was already living paycheck to paycheck.
- Widespread unemployment and inflation have the potential to pauperize even the most stable households.
- His gambling addiction had a way of pauperizing his once-comfortable lifestyle.