pauperizing
Stripping of wealth
Pauperizing is the process of making someone poor or reducing them to poverty.
Governments, economic policies, or circumstances can pauperize populations: Decades of mismanagement have pauperized the once-prosperous region.
The word carries a formal or literary tone, often appearing in discussions of systemic poverty rather than individual misfortune.
Causing financial ruin
- ruiningCausing complete destruction
- drainingDepleting one's reserves
- depletingProgressively using up
- dispossessingDepriving of ownership
stripping · exhausting · bleeding · sapping · liquidating · devastating · crushing · wrecking
To desire something
- lackDeficiency or absence
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- privationLack of necessities
- penuryExtreme lack of money
insufficiency · deficiency · dearth · shortage · destitution · neediness · bareness · emptiness
Sustained experience of distress
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
- tribulationState of great distress
affliction · ordeal · misfortune · crisis · calamity · setback · downturn · tragedy
Unequal distribution of resources
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- disenfranchisementRemoval of voting rights
- dispossessionDeprival of property rights
underclass · socioeconomic · oppression · subjugation · disempowerment · exclusion · ghettoization · displacement
State of needing support
- subordinationLower position in hierarchy
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
- disempowermentLoss of agency
subservience · compliance · passivity · weakness · burden · enabling · manipulation
bankrupting
Causing financial ruin
dispossessing · stripping · exhausting · bleeding · sapping · liquidating · devastating · crushing · wrecking · undermining
want
To desire something
penury · insufficiency · deficiency · dearth · shortage · destitution · neediness · bareness · emptiness · sparseness
suffering
Sustained experience of distress
- struggleLabored effort against resistance
- adversitySevere difficulty or suffering
- distressSevere anxiety or suffering
tribulation · affliction · ordeal · misfortune · crisis · calamity · setback · downturn · tragedy · woe
inequality
Unequal distribution of resources
- marginalizationRelegation to powerless periphery
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- disenfranchisementRemoval of voting rights
dispossession · underclass · socioeconomic · oppression · subjugation · disempowerment · exclusion · ghettoization · displacement · redlining
reliance
State of needing support
- subordinationLower position in hierarchy
- vulnerabilityOpenness to harm
- helplessnessLacking ability to cope
disempowerment · subservience · compliance · passivity · weakness · burden · enabling · manipulation
pauperizingenriching
Adding worth or nutrients
prospering · endowing · capitalizing · funding · bankrolling
pauperizingelevating
Lifting to higher level
uplifting · ennobling · aggrandizing · advancing · empowering
poverty, poorer, impoverished, pauper, impoverish, impoverishment, pauperized, impoverishing, pauperize