Immiserate Definition
ĭ-mĭzə-rāt
immiserates
verb
To make miserable; impoverish.
American Heritage
To impoverish or sink into misery.
Wiktionary
Origin of Immiserate
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New Latin immiserāre, immiserāt- (translation of German verelenden to sink into misery) (ver- causative pref.) (Elend poverty) Latin in- causative pref. in–2 Latin miser wretched
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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Back-formation from immiseration.
From Wiktionary
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