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PAUPERISE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does pauperise mean?
• PAUPERISE (verb)
The verb PAUPERISE has 1 sense:
1. reduce to beggary
Familiarity information: PAUPERISE used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
| Conjugation: |
Present simple: I / you / we / they pauperise ... he / she / it pauperises
Past simple: pauperised
Past participle: pauperised
-ing form: pauperising
... he / she / it pauperises Past simple: pauperised
Past participle: pauperised
-ing form: pauperising
Sense 1
Meaning:
Reduce to beggary
Classified under:
Verbs of buying, selling, owning
Synonyms:
Hypernyms (to "pauperise" is one way to...):
impoverish (make poor)
Sentence frame:
Something ----s somebody
Derivation:
pauperisation (the act of making someone poor)
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