immiserate
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editimmiserate (third-person singular simple present immiserates, present participle immiserating, simple past and past participle immiserated)
- (transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery.
- 1971 November 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, “Phase II of the Capitalist System”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.
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editimpoverish
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edit- “immiserate”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.