English

Verb

depauperize ‎(third-person singular simple present depauperizes, present participle depauperizing, simple past and past participle depauperized)

1. (transitive) To free from paupers.
2. (transitive) To rescue from poverty.
   • 2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States (page 24)

     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 […]

3. (transitive) To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

Synonyms

• dispauperize (sense "rescue from poverty" only)