immiserate

Back-formation from immiseration.

immiserate (third-person singular simple present immiserates, present participle immiserating, simple past and past participle immiserated)

1. (transitive) To impoverish or sink into misery.
   • 1971 Nov. 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, "Phase II of the Capitalist System," New York Times (retrieved 8 Dec 2016):

     By far the most powerful dynamic conception of capitalism as a system wracked by unavoidable change is the classic Marxian view in which a working class is first immiserated, then disciplined, finally goaded beyond endurance by a system that systematically exploits and deceives it.

• immiseration

• impoverish