IMMISERATION

PRONUNCIATION: (i-miz-uh-RAY-shuhn)

MEANING: noun:
1. The act of making miserable or the state of being made miserable.
2. Impoverishment.

ETYMOLOGY: Loan translation of German Verelendung (impoverishment) using Latin in- (into) + miserable, from Latin miserari (to pity), from miser (pitiable, wretched). Earliest documented use: 1942. Also spelled as immiserization.
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IMMIE-SERATION - cutting a sawtoothed surface into your marble

I'M MISER-ACTION ! - Scrooge McDuck announces he's a tightwad

I'M MISTER "-ATION" - I specialize in making verbs into nouns