NOUN | state | pauperization, indigence, need, penury, pauperism | a state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution |
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act | pauperization, pauperisation, impoverishment | the act of making someone poor |
Meaning | A state of extreme / extreme poverty or destitution. | |
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Synonyms | indigence, need, penury, pauperism | |
Narrower | beggary, mendicancy, mendicity | The state of being a beggar or mendicant |
Broader | poverty, poorness, impoverishment | The state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions |
Spanish | indigencia, miseria, necesidad, pauperismo, penuria, pobreza extrema | |
Catalan | extrema pobresa, indigència, misèria, necessitat, pauperisme, penúria | |
Verbs | pauperize | reduce to beggary |
Meaning | The act of making someone poor. | |
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Synonyms | pauperisation, impoverishment | |
Broader | privation, deprivation | Act of depriving someone of food or money or rights |
Spanish | empobrecimiento | |
Verbs | pauperize | reduce to beggary |
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