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

  Destitution \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.]
     The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
     condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources;
     deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the
     inundation caused general destitution. Destrer



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  destitution
       n : a state without friends or money or prospects

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  43 Moby Thesaurus words for "destitution":
     absence, adversity, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness,
     beggary, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation,
     drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe,
     hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness,
     imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack,
     mendicancy, misfortune, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity,
     need, neediness, omission, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch,
     privation, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want,
     wantage
  
  

















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