All beggared synonyms
begΒ·gar
B b adj beggared
- destitute β Someone who is destitute has no money or possessions.
- poor β having little or no money, goods, or other means of support: a poor family living on welfare.
- bankrupt β People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- penniless β without any money whatsoever; totally impoverished; destitute.
- insolvent β not solvent; unable to satisfy creditors or discharge liabilities, either because liabilities exceed assets or because of inability to pay debts as they mature.
- bankrupt β People or organizations that go bankrupt do not have enough money to pay their debts.
- poverty-stricken β suffering from poverty; extremely poor: poverty-stricken refugees.
- distressed β afflicted with or suffering distress: distress livestock; distress wheat.
- barren β A barren landscape is dry and bare, and has very few plants and no trees.
- underprivileged β denied the enjoyment of the normal privileges or rights of a society because of low economic and social status.
- disadvantaged β lacking the normal or usual necessities and comforts of life, as proper housing, educational opportunities, job security, adequate medical care, etc.: The government extends help to disadvantaged minorities.
- meager β deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: a meager salary; meager fare; a meager harvest.
- low β to utter by or as by lowing.
- strapped β needy; wanting: The company is rather strapped for funds.
- bust β a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- ruined β ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- vagrant β a person who wanders about idly and has no permanent home or employment; vagabond; tramp.
- defeated β having suffered defeat; beaten
- outcast β a falling out; quarrel.
- vagabond β wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic: a vagabond tribe.
- derelict β A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
- spent β simple past tense and past participle of spend.
- clean β Something that is clean is free from dirt or unwanted marks.
- reduced β that is or has been reduced.
- hurting β to cause bodily injury to; injure: He was badly hurt in the accident.
- down-and-out β without any money, or means of support, or prospects; destitute; penniless.
- scanty β scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barely sufficient.
- suffering β the state of a person or thing that suffers.
verb beggared
- devastate β If something devastates an area or a place, it damages it very badly or destroys it totally.
- wipe out β an act of wiping: He gave a few quick wipes to the furniture.
- mar β to damage or spoil to a certain extent; render less perfect, attractive, useful, etc.; impair or spoil: That billboard mars the view. The holiday was marred by bad weather.
- impoverish β to reduce to poverty: a country impoverished by war.
- wreck β any building, structure, or thing reduced to a state of ruin.
- overwhelm β to overcome completely in mind or feeling: overwhelmed by remorse.
- injure β to do or cause harm of any kind to; damage; hurt; impair: to injure one's hand.
- shatter β to break (something) into pieces, as by a blow.
- demolish β To demolish something such as a building means to destroy it completely.
- crush β To crush something means to press it very hard so that its shape is destroyed or so that it breaks into pieces.
- decimate β To decimate something such as a group of people or animals means to destroy a very large number of them.
- wrack β Also called cloud rack. a group of drifting clouds.
- deplete β To deplete a stock or amount of something means to reduce it.
- spoil β to damage severely or harm (something), especially with reference to its excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: The water stain spoiled the painting. Drought spoiled the corn crop.
- raze β to tear down; demolish; level to the ground: to raze a row of old buildings.
- deface β If someone defaces something such as a wall or a notice, they spoil it by writing or drawing things on it.
- defile β To defile something that people think is important or holy means to do something to it or say something about it which is offensive.
- beggar β A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food.
- reduce β to bring down to a smaller extent, size, amount, number, etc.: to reduce one's weight by 10 pounds.
- sack β a strong light-colored wine formerly imported from Spain and the Canary Islands.
- total β constituting or comprising the whole; entire; whole: the total expenditure.
- rape β the residue of grapes, after the juice has been extracted, used as a filter in making vinegar.