depauperize verb3 •To rescue from poverty.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 […] — 2009 •(old-fashioned) To free from paupers or pauperism. •To impoverish, to make poor (to make depauperate). formsdepauperized · depauperizing · depauperizes