depauperize

depauperise

From de- +‎ pauperize.

depauperize (third-person singular simple present depauperizes, present participle depauperizing, simple past and past participle depauperized)

1. (dated, transitive) To free from paupers or pauperism.
   • 1869, Florence Nightingale, A Note on Pauperism:

     in Scotland, where the pauper child has been placed out to board with a ​cottager at an expense, covering everything, of 9l. a year. Here it has been proved what family kindness, shown even by strangers, will do to depauperise

2. (transitive) To rescue from poverty.
   • 2009, Donncha Marron, Consumer Credit in the United States, page 24:

     Now it seemed, not only was labor insufficient to depauperize the population, the labor process itself was now seen to be threatening social disorder and mass demoralization […]

3. (transitive) To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate).

• dispauperize (sense "rescue from poverty" only)

• “depauperize”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.