Today’s “Word of the Day” is immiserate and it is a verb meaning “to make poor, to make penniless, to make miserable, reduce to destitution, impoverish”.
Example Sentence: In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York… These funds belong to the people of Afghanistan… First, why must ordinary Afghan citizens who had nothing to do with the September 11 attacks have their savings confiscated and their lives immiserated by bureaucrats in Washington?
This word is present in The Guardian article Why is the White House stealing $7bn from Afghans? and click here to read it.
Courtesy: The Guardian
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