Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DE-PAU'PER-ATE
DE-PAS'TUR-INGDE-PAU'PER-A-TED
DE-PAU'PER-ATE, v.t. [L. depaupero; de and paupero, to beggar, from pauper, poor: Sp. empobrecer.]
To make poor; to impoverish; to deprive of fertility or richness; as, to depauperate the soil or the blood. – Mortimer. Arbuthnot.
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