1. to make miserable or wretched; to cause to suffer poverty or hardship
Usage: formal; often used in academic or political discourse

Examples

• The economic policies immiserates the working class.
• War and famine immiserates entire populations.
• Systemic inequality immiserates vulnerable communities.
• The factory conditions immiserates the workers.
• Lack of access to education immiserates future generations.
• Chronic unemployment immiserates families in the region.