Antonyms for pauperize
Grammar : Verb |
Spell : paw-puh-rahyz |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpɔ pəˌraɪz |
Definition of pauperize
- verb ruin
- Her soil has always been solvent and her system of farming does not tend to pauperize.
- Extract from : « History of Linn County Iowa » by Luther A. Brewer
- The best way to get rid of the pauper spirit is to pauperize some one else.
- Extract from : « The Joys of Being a Woman » by Winifred Kirkland
- Has Salt Lake City abolished any of the social evils that pauperize her people?
- Extract from : « Broke » by Edwin A. Brown
- Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not?
- Extract from : « Seven English Cities » by William Dean Howells
- The missionaries did not want to pauperize the Indians, they said, by giving gifts.
- Extract from : « The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn » by John R. Spears
- It might pauperize the parents and destroy parental responsibility.
- Extract from : « The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists » by Robert Tressell
- How can we rescue them from poverty and illiteracy, and not pauperize them?
- Extract from : « American Missionary, Volume 43, No. 1, January, 1889 » by Various
- I doubt it; it would be more likely to pauperize the whole nation.
- Extract from : « A Crooked Path » by Mrs. Alexander
- He did not propose to pauperize his farm by applying his personal ignorance to working it.
- Extract from : « Life On The Mississippi, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
- Sure they do,” Billy agreed, “only Nancy has kind of given up her struggle not to pauperize them.
- Extract from : « Outside Inn » by Ethel M. Kelley
Synonyms for pauperize
- bankrupt
- beggar
- botch
- break
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- bust
- clean out
- crush
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- deplore
- depredate
- desecrate
- despoil
- devour
- dilapidate
- disfigure
- do in
- drain
- exhaust
- fleece
- impoverish
- injure
- lay waste
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- pillage
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- sack
- shatter
- smash
- spoil
- spoilate
- total
- use up
- wipe out
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
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