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- v. Simple past tense and past participle of immiserate.
- adj. Poor, impoverished; destitute.
Examples
“Classic case of an oppressive oligarchy fearing the participation of the majority that they have immiserated.”
“Israel and Egypt have kept the Gazans immiserated for their own purposes, with the incidental result of creating Gazan recruits for Hamasetc.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
“Israel and Egypt have kept the Gazans immiserated for their own purposes, with the incidental result of creating Gazan recruits for Hamas etc.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Gaza Blockade Violence News You May Have Missed
“For a time, he tapped into an angry, shameful intellectual current among Muslims, who after World War II were increasingly immiserated by their ever more lawless rulers.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Slaughter That Muslims Could Not Ignore
“Firstly, because carrots are the only things which will work, and secondly, because using sticks immiserates all of us, and I certainly don't want to be immiserated to 'punish' the people who provide my daily bread an butter.”
Capitalism as a Benevolent System, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Since his appointment as prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority in 2007, following the Fatah-Hamas civil war that led to Hamas 'takeover of Gaza, Salam Fayyad has completely transformed the West Bank from an immiserated backwater into a thriving, integrated society.”
The Huffington Post: Taylor Marsh: Salam Fayyad, Out of the Ashes of Arafat
“A scramble for Afghanistan's resources would simply intensify the tribal warfare that's already taking place in that immiserated country.”
The Huffington Post: Jacob Heilbrunn: Obama's Fool's Gold In Afghanistan
“The Commentary line is that the Arab nations positively want an immiserated Palestinian population as a permanent propaganda tool.”
“Maybe they're just more clued in there, but a year after my U.K. trip, I still haven't noticed "c diff" here, back among the immiserated masses of palest America.”
“Susceptible children are left in no doubt that we're all headed for a despoiled, immiserated future unless they start planting pansies in their old shoes, using dryer lint as mulch, and practicing periodic vegetarianism.”
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