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depauperise

depauperise is the alternative form of depauperize.

Meaning of depauperize

Verb

depauperize (third-person singular simple present depauperizes, present participle depauperizing, simple past and past participle depauperized)

  1. (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism.
    • in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise1869, Florence Nightingale, A Note on Pauperism
  2. (transitive) To rescue from poverty.
    • Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States, page 24
    Synonyms:
    dispauperize
  3. (transitive) To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

Forms of depauperise

third-person singular presentdepauperises
present participledepauperising
past participledepauperised
pastdepauperised

Questions about depauperise

What is depauperise the alternative form of?
Depauperise is the alternative form of depauperize.

Words near depauperise in the dictionary

  1. depauperates
  2. depauperating
  3. depauperation
  4. depauperisation
  5. depauperisations
  6. depauperise
  7. depauperised
  8. depauperises
  9. depauperising
  10. depauperization
  11. depauperizations

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