Pauperizing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pauperize \Pau"per*ize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pauperized}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Pauperizing}.]
     To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.
     [1913 Webster]