Pauperization

pau·per·ize  (pôp-rz)

tr.v. pau·per·ized, pau·per·iz·ing, pau·per·iz·es

To make a pauper of; impoverish.

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pauper·i·zation (-pr--zshn) n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	pauperization - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" indigence, pauperism, penury, need impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions mendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy"
	2.	pauperization - the act of making someone poor pauperisation, impoverishment privation, deprivation - act of depriving someone of food or money or rights; "nutritional privation"; "deprivation of civil rights"