"immiserate" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "Back-formation from immiseration.",
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          "ref": "1971 November 28, Robert L. Heilbroner, “Phase II of the Capitalist System”, in The New York Times, →ISSN",
          "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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        {
          "ref": "2018 January 16, Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy, NYU Press, page 51",
          "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, 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",
          "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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          "impoverish",
          "impoverish"
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          "misery",
          "misery"
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        "(transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "immiseration"
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          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "impoverish",
          "word": "zbídačit"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "note": "no equivalent term in German",
          "sense": "impoverish"
        },
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "impoverish",
          "word": "but see verarmen lassen"
        },
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          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "impoverish",
          "word": "sărăci"
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    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈmɪzəɹeɪt/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immiserate"
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      "form": "immiserating",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2018 January 16, Greg Goldberg, Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy, NYU Press, page 51",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2020, Thomas Orlik, China: The Bubble that Never Pops, Oxford University Press, 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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          "text": "These regimes will favor older people and contain and immiserate the young.",
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        "(transitive) To impoverish (someone); to make someone sink into misery."
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      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "impoverish",
      "word": "zbídačit"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "note": "no equivalent term in German",
      "sense": "impoverish"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "impoverish",
      "word": "but see verarmen lassen"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "impoverish",
      "word": "sărăci"
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  "word": "immiserate"
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