Tuesday, 25 November 2025

New to me

 

New to me

Immiserate: impoverish, make miserable

This verb appeared around 1956, but the noun, immiseration, came into use in the 1940s.

 According to ‘The Times, ‘the chancellor immiserated business by overstressing her point about the catastrophic economic legacy left by the Tories. After that, she impoverished business, using her first budget to raise employers’ national insurance contributions (NICs) by 1.2 per cent, damaging the retail sector in particular.’

I suspect many of us are ‘immiserated’ on a daily basis, but at least we can commiserate with each other.

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5 comments:

  1. Hels25 November 2025 at 02:16

    I am certainly made miserable often enough, but immiserated is a word I haven't heard before. Now I will :)

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  2. Red25 November 2025 at 02:38

    One wonders where you find these words with an odd meaning. Keep it up . It's fun.

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  3. Kay25 November 2025 at 04:43

    I am immiserated to the hilt right now with vertigo. Sigh...

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  4. Anonymous25 November 2025 at 04:45

    I have heard of impoverished, but not the others. I am not miserable very often.

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  5. Anvilcloud25 November 2025 at 06:00

    New to me. Clever use of commiserate.

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