depauperize
verbEtymology From de- + pauperize.
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Dated To free from paupers or pauperism.
- in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise1869, Florence Nightingale, A Note on Pauperism:
2
To rescue from poverty.
- Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States, page 24:
3
To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).