depauperize

present singular third person depauperizes · participle present depauperizing · participle past depauperized · past depauperized

1. datedtransitiveTo 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 depauperise

   1869, Florence Nightingale, A Note on Pauperism

2. transitiveTo 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

   Synonyms: dispauperize

3. transitiveTo impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

   Synonyms: depauperate, pauperize, ruin, beggar, depauperate, destitute, embeggar, empoverish