PAUPERISING Synonyms

• forceful prevention; putting down by power or authority

• physically or spiritually devastating; often used in combination

• impairing the strength and vitality

• having a debilitating effect

• having a debilitating effect

• producing exhaustion

• the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions

• the act of making someone poor

• any process in which electrons are added to an atom or ion (as by removing oxygen or adding hydrogen); always occurs accompanied by oxidation of the reducing agent

• loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• the event of a structure being completely demolished and leveled

• destruction achieved by causing something to be wrecked or ruined

• someone who has insufficient assets to cover their debts

• financially ruined

• reduce to bankruptcy

• a pauper who lives by begging

• be beyond the resources of

• reduce to beggary

• use up (resources or materials)

• do away with, cause the destruction or undoing of

• destroy completely; damage irreparably

• defeat soundly and humiliatingly

• put (an animal) to death

• sap of life or energy

• make poor

• take away