Beggared

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Beggar \Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Beggared}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Beggaring}.]
     1. To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared
        himself. --Milton.
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     2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
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              It beggared all description.          --Shak.
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From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "beggared":
     beggarly, bereaved, bereft, broke, deprived, destitute,
     disadvantaged, flat, fleeced, fortuneless, ghettoized, impecunious,
     impoverished, in need, in rags, in want, indigent, mendicant,
     necessitous, needy, on relief, out at elbows, pauperized,
     poverty-stricken, starveling, stripped, underprivileged