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ALL meanings of beggar

beg·gar
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  • countable noun beggar A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food. 3
  • verb beggar If something beggars a person, country, or organization, it makes them very poor. 3
  • noun beggar a person who begs, esp one who lives by begging 3
  • noun beggar a person who has no money or resources; pauper 3
  • noun beggar fellow 3
  • verb beggar to be beyond the resources of (esp in the phrase to beggar description) 3
  • verb beggar to impoverish; reduce to begging 3
  • noun beggar a person who begs, or asks for charity, esp. one who lives by begging; mendicant 3
  • noun beggar a person who is very poor; pauper 3
  • noun beggar a person; fellow 3
  • verb transitive beggar to make a beggar of; make poor 3
  • verb transitive beggar to make seem inadequate or useless 3
  • noun beggar person: asks for money 1
  • noun beggar poor person 1
  • noun beggar a person who begs alms or lives by begging. 1
  • transitive verb beggar impoverish 1
  • noun beggar a penniless person. 1
  • noun beggar a wretched fellow; rogue: the surly beggar who collects the rents. 1
  • noun beggar a child or youngster (usually preceded by little): a sudden urge to hug the little beggar. 1
  • verb with object beggar to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish: The family had been beggared by the war. 1
  • verb with object beggar to cause one's resources of or ability for (description, comparison, etc.) to seem poor or inadequate: The costume beggars description. 1
  • noun beggar A person who begs. 0
  • noun beggar A person suffering from extreme poverty. 0
  • verb beggar (Transitive Verb) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish. 0
  • verb beggar (Transitive Verb) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo. 0
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