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pauperise

pauperise is the alternative spelling of pauperize.

Meaning of pauperize

Verb

pauperize (third-person singular simple present pauperizes, present participle pauperizing, simple past and past participle pauperized)

  1. (transitive) To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.
    • This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the...1851, Philomathos, “Ought Government to Provide a Secular Education For the People?”, in The British Controversialist: And Literary Magazine, number 13, page 351

Forms of pauperise

third-person singular presentpauperises
present participlepauperising
past participlepauperised
pastpauperised

Questions about pauperise

What is pauperise the alternative spelling of?
Pauperise is the alternative spelling of pauperize.

Words near pauperise in the dictionary

  1. pauperess
  2. pauperesses
  3. paupering
  4. pauperisation
  5. pauperisations
  6. pauperise
  7. pauperised
  8. pauperises
  9. pauperising
  10. pauperism
  11. pauperisms

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