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.
I am certainly made miserable often enough, but immiserated is a word I haven't heard before. Now I will :)
ReplyDeleteIt's a good word to use, isn't it?
DeleteOne wonders where you find these words with an odd meaning. Keep it up . It's fun.
ReplyDeleteThey seem to leap off the page at me . . .
DeleteI am immiserated to the hilt right now with vertigo. Sigh...
ReplyDeleteYou're still suffering, Kay? That's a long time. I hope you find a cure soon.
DeleteI have heard of impoverished, but not the others. I am not miserable very often.
ReplyDeleteI try not to be . . .
DeleteNew to me. Clever use of commiserate.
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DeleteThese wonderful words are brilliant. Thanks 😊
ReplyDeleteThe Times can be a good source of . . . news . . . the proofreading is pretty rettiboe thgh.
Delete*terrible though* 😳
DeleteNew to me too and I don't think I'm likely to use that word - no one would know what I meant!
ReplyDeleteThat's half the fun of using unusual words . . .
DeleteA word that carries its meaning well.
ReplyDeleteI thought so, too.
Deletenever heard this word, noun or verb but I can attest to the fact that bobs health issues are Immiserating us for sure. we are both miserable and impoverished. this could fit any and all things.
ReplyDeleteNot to be laughed at, for sure.
DeleteI've never heard this word. I'm pretty sure there were things that made me feel immiserated
ReplyDeleteI'm immiserated daily by some of the nonsense that goes on in the world.
DeleteI'm laughing but then maybe I really shouldn't be.
ReplyDeleteOh, you should - laughter makes the world go round. 😁
DeleteLanguages change, I stated that when the German we used to speak in the 60th has changed a lot, fortunately I understand English there are so many English words which "moved" in. And the youth has a own language, but that in all countries. My German friend bought me a dictionary of the German youth expressions to the German I spoke ! If you live in the country you don't realize it so much.
ReplyDeleteYou're right - language changes and evolves. I don't know what popular expressions there are now. I shall have to look . . .
DeleteUntil reading your post, I had not come across this term. And fortunately, I have (so far) not been immiserated; quite the contrary. When I was younger, I worked very hard for very little money, and because I paid all the fees out of my own pocket, my divorce was quite immiserating. Things changed for the better with my second marriage, and then improved greatly in recent years. Although I am not rich by most people's standards, I am not worried about paying my bills and the mortgage, and can afford nice holidays, clothes, eating out and so on. Is that called demiseration then? Or simply improvement?
ReplyDeleteI like 'demiseration' - it has a nice ring to it, though sadly it is not a recognised word yet. I'm confident that if people started using it, it would become popular.
DeleteNew to me too
ReplyDeleteAlison in Devon x
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DeleteI new word to me, too.
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