depauperized
depauperized is the simple past and past participle of depauperize.
Meaning of depauperize
Verb
depauperize (third-person singular simple present depauperizes, present participle depauperizing, simple past and past participle depauperized)
- 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
- 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
- To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).
- Synonyms:
- depauperate, pauperize, ruin, beggar, destitute, embeggar, empoverish, immiserate, impoor, impoverish
Questions about depauperized
- What is depauperized the simple past and past participle of?
- Depauperized is the simple past and past participle of depauperize.
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