pauperize

verb

1. (transitive)To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.

   “This is an Education which consists in the outleading of the blackguardizing, pauperizing, vagrant-like, and theftuous elements of the mentality, entirely withdrawn, and apart from any moral guidance, any elevating tendency, any ameliorating influence, nay, directly under the direction of the demoralized and the abandoned.”

   “Burdocks, thistles, dwarf oaks, cottonweed, chalky holes and whitish puddles everywhere. It was all pauperized. The very bushes might have been on welfare.”

   “He (Lee Kuan Yew) and his associates jailed opponents or pauperized them through civil court cases alleging slander or other misdemeanors.”