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Meaning of depauperize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. To free from paupers or pauperism.
    dated, transitive
  2. To rescue from poverty.
    transitive
  3. To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).
    transitive

Examples

“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”
“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 […]”

CEFR level

C1
Advanced
This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.

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