Difference between impoverish and pauperize

impoverish

Definitions

verb

  1. take away
  2. make poor

Examples

The residents are mostly impoverished families who survive by collecting recyclable garbage.

In this sense, he saw scientific psychology as anti-life: the more the critical reason dominates, the more impoverished life becomes; but the more myth we are capable of making conscious, the more life we integrate.

One must guard against the misinterpretation of this term impoverishment as compared with the state of affairs which would have developed in the absence of credit expansion and the boom.

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pauperize

Definitions

verb

  1. reduce to beggary

Examples

The blame rests with successive weak and myopic Cong govts whose stupid policies destroyed the economy, leaving India pauperized, unable to help anyone as she herself was abegging for aid.

Liverpool, in which it was lately proved that crime -- and especially the crime of uneducated boys and girls -- had cost, in the last few years, the city many times more than it would cost to educate, civilize, and depauperize the whole rising generation of that city, and had been a tax upon the capital and industry of Liverpool, so enormous that they would have submitted to it from no Government on earth; and yet they had been blindly inflicting it upon themselves for years, simply because they chose to forget that they were their brothers 'keepers.

What is needed is to depauperize him, and this can only be done by finding him worknot work for the sake of working, but work of which he can enjoy the benefit.

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