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Meanings of destitute in anglès
Poor enough to need help from others.
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Synonyms
Examples for "impoverished"
Examples for "impoverished"
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Many impoverished Zimbabweans hope a unity government would start an economic recovery.
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Or maybe an impoverished African nation with a poorly developed health service?
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However, most campaigns to curb population growth are targeted toward impoverished nations.
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Only Seoul, he said, could help save the impoverished state from ruin.
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R. Lamb considerably impoverished himself in enclosing the ground; and the Rev.
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But during the coalition government, services were reduced to the most needy.
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Every year, he withdraws the pension and donates it to the needy.
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She had studied intimately the needy and the rich and the middling.
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Some is bagged up and offered to needy families to take home.
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In reality they are psychologically needy and damaged examples of human life.
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Conclusions: Findings suggest remarkable need for services among communities of indigent women.
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Training indigent forces is exactly what we're organized and trained to do.
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These other amounts include R1 billion in debts charged on indigent properties.
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The latter two are healthcare programmes for the elderly and the indigent.
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Large firms do take cases pro bono on behalf of the indigent.
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Hucksters read our necessitous state and ran at heel shouting their wares.
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Let us go to him, and know if he is really necessitous.
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And why is Latin more necessitous for a footman than a gentleman?
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The lands forfeited by the followers of Mazdak were distributed to necessitous cultivators.
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His hand had always been open to the poor and necessitous.
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Are some of the natural resources of this dilapidated and poverty-stricken country.
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The air was rent with the cries of orphans and poverty-stricken widows.
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She offered to pay her share, since they were both poverty-stricken teachers.
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The whole of this poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned.
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In spite of her poverty-stricken appearance, Mrs. Sowler was not absolutely destitute.
Usage of destitute in anglès
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The farms have brought jobs and some prosperity to a once-destitute region.
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Moonshine is our main source of income, we'd be destitute without it.
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The new people are mostly destitute, hungry and with nowhere to stay.
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After this, all his support was stopped and he was left destitute.
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Once into the Eastern Empire it left whole cities destitute or destroyed.
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If we're denied the full experience, we will be left feeling destitute.
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Dr Stefan Mans, of Aston University, said: The wives were very destitute.
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The lower bed of the drift is entirely destitute of organic remains.
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In reality, the archbishop was wholly destitute of either abilities or virtues.
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Hence the man destitute of wisdom never succeeds in crossing that river.
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The region around it is somewhat bleak and almost destitute of trees.
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In short, he was destitute of love, the sole life of religion.
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Afterwards he went away, became destitute, and sold matches in the streets.
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His visage was colourless; his limbs destitute of motion, almost of life.
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He was utterly destitute of the power of exhibiting real human beings.
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Why are so many Blacks still mired in poverty and disproportionately destitute?
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United Kingdom
Common
Ireland
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United States of America
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