"immiserate" meaning in English

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "The fun, pleasurable aspect of playbor troubles scholars because it seems to suggest that playborers are not exploited; exploitation is supposed to be immiserating, not fun.",
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          "ref": "2020, Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 76:",
          "text": "Higher inequality, in part the result of a real estate boom that immiserated some and enriched others, meant more wealth in the hands of the high-saving rich.",
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          "ref": "2021, Michael Harris, Stay Alive: Surviving Capitalism’s Coming Hunger Games, John Hunt Publishing, →ISBN:",
          "text": "These regimes will favor older people and contain and immiserate the young.",
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        "To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery."
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        "(transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery."
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          "word": "zbídačit"
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      "ipa": "/ɪˈmɪzəɹeɪt/"
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