Definition
pauperising
verb
- making someone poor or reducing them to poverty; impoverishing
Usage: present participle of pauperise (British spelling); also spelled pauperizing in U.S. English; formal or literary
Examples
- The economic policies were criticized for pauperising rural communities.
- High taxes and inflation are pauperising the middle class.
- Colonial exploitation was pauperising the local population.
- The war left many families pauperising and homeless.
- Unfair trade agreements risk pauperising developing nations.