Synonyms for pauperize
- verb
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Verb
beggar, impoverish, ruin, destitute, immiserate, depauperize, depauperise UK, bankrupt, poor rare, depauperate dated, poverish dated, impoor dated
Definitions
- v. 1
To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
Related words
- Other spellings
- pauperise UK
Forms
- Past participle
- pauperized
e.g. pauperized → beggared, impoverished, ruined, destituted…
Example sentences
- beggar You don't need language to understand the beggar.
- destitute It was there that this destitute child was born.
- impoverish They are trying to impoverish people.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| pauperize | steady | |
| beggar | rising | |
| destitute | steady | |
| impoverish | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- poor1, ruin2
- 6 letters
- beggar2, impoor
- 8 letters
- bankrupt2, poverish
- 9 letters
- destitute3
- 10 letters
- impoverish3, immiserate
- 11 letters
- depauperize, depauperise, depauperate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (ruin2 = 2 syllables).