pauperize
Strip of wealth
To pauperize is to reduce someone to poverty or make them dependent on charity.
The word often carries a critical edge, suggesting that welfare systems or economic policies create dependency rather than alleviating hardship: Critics argued the program would pauperize recipients rather than help them find work.
The noun pauperization describes this process.
Unable to repay debts
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- beggarOne who asks for charity
- destituteUtterly without means
- indigentExtremely poor, lacking necessities
insolvent · penury · deplete · drain · exhaust · strip · dispossess · deprive
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
- povertySevere lack of resources
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- wantTo desire something
neediness · hardship · privation · scarcity · insufficiency · deficiency · lack · pennilessness
Legal status when insolvent
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- collapseSudden structural failure
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
- declineDecrease or refuse
fall · failure · undoing · loss · degradation · demise · plummet · slump
Unequal distribution of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- disenfranchisementRemoval of voting rights
economic disparity · class divide · underclass · welfare dependency · social exclusion · ghettoization · urban decay · food insecurity
bankrupt
Unable to repay debts
indigent · insolvent · penury · deplete · drain · exhaust · strip · dispossess · deprive · reduce
destitution
Extreme poverty, lacking necessities
want · neediness · hardship · privation · scarcity · insufficiency · deficiency · lack · pennilessness · beggary
bankruptcy
Legal status when insolvent
- ruinComplete destruction or collapse
- collapseSudden structural failure
- insolvencyInability to pay debts
decline · fall · failure · undoing · loss · degradation · demise · plummet · slump · slide
inequality
Unequal distribution of resources
- unemploymentBeing without paid work
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
disenfranchisement · economic disparity · class divide · underclass · welfare dependency · social exclusion · ghettoization · urban decay · food insecurity · working poor