noun
1. the act of making someone poor
• Syn: ↑pauperisation, ↑impoverishment
• Derivationally related forms: ↑impoverish (for: ↑impoverishment), ↑pauperise (for: ↑pauperisation), ↑pauperize
• Hypernyms: ↑privation, ↑deprivation
2. a state of extreme poverty or destitution
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their indigence appalled him
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a general state of need exists among the homeless
• Derivationally related forms: ↑pauperize, ↑penurious (for: ↑penury), ↑needy (for: ↑need), ↑indigent (for: ↑indigence)
• Hypernyms: ↑poverty, ↑poorness, ↑impoverishment
• Hyponyms: ↑beggary, ↑mendicancy, ↑mendicity
Useful english dictionary. 2012.