different between immiserated vs immiserate

English

Verb

immiserated

1. simple past tense and past participle of immiserate

Adjective

immiserated (comparative more immiserated, superlative most immiserated)

1. Poor, impoverished; destitute.
   • 2011, Will Self, "The frowniest spot on Earth", London Review of Books, XXXIII.9:

     A rash of suicides among its workers is part of the reason for Foxconn’s relocation to the still poorer and more immiserated interior of the Heavenly People’s Republic.

English

Etymology

Back-formation from immiseration.

Verb

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.

Related terms

• immiseration

Translations

See also

• impoverish