pauperize

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

pauperize
    v 1: reduce to beggary [syn: {beggar}, {pauperize}, {pauperise}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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]