immiserate

immiserate
im·mis·er·ate (ĭ-mĭzʹə-rāt') tr.v. im·mis·er·at·ed, im·mis·er·at·ing, im·mis·er·ates
To make miserable; impoverish.
  [New Latin immiserāre, immiserāt-(translation of German verelenden, to sink into misery : ver-, causative pref. + Elend, poverty): Latin in-, causative pref.; see in-2 + Latin miser, wretched.]   im·mis'er·aʹtion n.

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