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Meanings of beggar in English
Person who begs on the street, usually for food or money.
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Examples for "impoverish"
Examples for "impoverish"
1
No adventurous schemer could impoverish his family by the spirit of speculation.
2
The trees, he says with reason, impoverish the soil by their roots.
3
We are stealing that which enriches us and does not impoverish them.
4
Giving does not impoverish either her ample purse or her generous heart.
5
True genius will not impoverish, but will liberate, and add new senses.
1
Would it have corrupted him, since pauperize him further it could not?
2
It may even be worse than wasted; it may encourage shiftlessness, it may pauperize.
3
That charity which is personal can neither harden nor pauperize.
4
Cheque-charity may harden the heart of him who gives, and pauperize him who takes.
5
Which course would be most sure to pauperize them utterly?
1
The banking crisis still has the potential to pauperise a generation.
2
You made me pauperise her father, Sim; I'm sorry it was not worse.
3
Besides, if we pauperise Germany, no one-noteven Belgium-willget a pound of indemnity.
4
A big windfall would not pauperise a man.
5
She'll simply make ducks and drakes of it, give it away to all and sundry, pauperise the whole neighbourhood.
Usage of beggar in English
1
The beggar again made signs of the cross repeatedly in the air.
2
He was not a beggar & was obviously having a good time.
3
And in their wealth the beggar and the outcast had due share.
4
The beggar rose and walked toward the second booth on the right.
5
The pretended beggar took the coin, and put it in his pocket.
6
Without it I should have been the beggar instead of the prince.
7
Even the beggar at the street corner below was without his ideal.
8
The little beggar behaved very well, I thought, in the first business.
9
Nearly a child herself, a beggar, a girl without family or home.
10
There's a young beggar behind me, over there by the ribbon seller.
11
Nevertheless I stood up and held out my hand like a beggar.
12
The beggar was good-looking, of course; but what-well , Igiveit up.
13
No one mentioned the beggar's bizarre pronouncements, for which I was grateful.
14
A beggar, by Jove, and all in consequence of my d-d sentimentality.
15
Just making first attempts in the stick and limp stage, poor beggar.
16
Meanwhile, let him alone; the young beggar has had a hard day.
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Translations for beggar
Russian
Beggar through the time
Beggar across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common