1. (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• indigence
• need
• pauperism
• penury

2. (noun) the act of making someone poor

• impoverishment
• pauperisation

1. (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• beggary
• mendicancy
• mendicity

1. (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• impoverishment
• poorness
• poverty

2. (noun) the act of making someone poor

• deprivation
• privation

1. (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution

• beggar
• pauperise
• pauperize
• destitute
• destitute
• impoverished
• impoverished
• indigent
• indigent
• necessitous
• necessitous
• needy
• needy
• poverty-stricken
• poverty-stricken
• hard up
• impecunious
• in straitened circumstances
• penniless
• penurious
• pinched

2. (noun) the act of making someone poor

• beggar
• beggar
• pauperise
• pauperise
• pauperize
• pauperize
• deprive
• impoverish
• impoverish