immiseration

/ษชmษชzษ™หˆษนeษชสƒ(ษ™)n/

IPA: /IH0 M IH1 S ER0 EY0 SH AH0 N/

noun
  1. 1

    The process of making miserable, especially of a population as a whole; impoverishment.

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