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- verb Present participle of
pauperize .
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Examples
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This is a double-edged razor blade, by the way, for the situation has gotten so out of hand that China cannot divest itself of this debt without pauperizing itself.
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The so-called "Free Trade" agreements are pauperizing a large segment of our people.
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But the war is also pauperizing the other states involved in it.
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As a practical matter, pauperizing people like the Frosts is equally stupid.
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As a practical matter, pauperizing people like the Frosts is equally stupid.
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It will, however, have the effect of still further pauperizing the labour of the country.
The History of the Great Irish Famine of 1847 (3rd ed.) (1902) With Notices of Earlier Irish Famines John O'Rourke
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The aid given to enable the poorest students to attend the school has brought its own questions, such as: the danger of pauperizing the recipients; the methods of selecting the beneficiaries; the best way to give the weekly aid; the development of a spirit of earnest work and regular attendance in the girls thus aided; the stimulation of a desire to return some equivalent in special helpfulness to the Manhattan Trade
The Making of a Trade School Mary Schenck Woolman
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The fear of pauperizing recipients of charity made the societies too strict in their alms-giving, so that hardships resulted that were unnecessary, but such a course was the natural reaction against the indiscriminate charity that had been in vogue.
Society Its Origin and Development Henry Kalloch Rowe
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I am sure that by far the largest proportion of the aid that has been so abundantly distributed by the various charitable agencies, especially in our large towns, has been spent in supporting a great many idle and vicious persons whose example has had the most pernicious effect in pauperizing the people.
Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders Report of the Committee of Inquiry Appointed by the Hon. Sir Maui Pomare, K.B.E., C.M.G., Minister of Health New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders
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Gradual but certain withdrawal of support from national or State boards in order to avoid pauperizing communities by relieving them of their local financial responsibilities.
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