verb
- making someone extremely poor; reducing to poverty
Usage: present participle of pauperize
Examples
- The economic crisis was pauperizing entire communities.
- High medical bills were pauperizing the family.
- The war had a pauperizing effect on the rural population.
- Government policies were accused of pauperizing the working class.
- The drought was pauperizing farmers across the region.
- Inflation was pauperizing people on fixed incomes.