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).

   Synonyms:

   depauperate, pauperize, ruin, beggar, destitute, embeggar, empoverish, immiserate, impoor, impoverish