pooring

Verb

poor (third-person singular simple present poors, present participle pooring, simple past and past participle poored)

1. (rare, transitive) Synonym of impoverish, to make poor.
   • It is very evident that Americans are being ‘poored down’ to suit the world socialist agenda, and to maximize profits for the international corporations.2003 August 10, Dallas News, p. 3

   Synonyms:

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

2. (intransitive, obsolete) To become poor.
   • The mone of this realme is born out in gret quantite and the realme puryt of the sammyn.1467, Acts of the Parliament of Scotland, Vol. II, p. 88
3. (obsolete) To call someone poor.
   • Miss Lavinia... put in that she didn't want to be ‘poored by pa,’ or anybody else.1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, page 27

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