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Meanings of destitute in English
Poor enough to need help from others.
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Examples for "free"
Examples for "free"
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The report also said police inhibited protesters constitutional right to free speech.
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The second was economic: the free market liberal revolution of the 1980s.
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Masutha, however, could not say exactly how much free education will cost.
4
She said that government revenue funds Cuba's free education and healthcare systems.
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But she said children still need free time to use their imaginations.
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And we deplore violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place.
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Some have seen it as innocent; others clearly view it as inappropriate.
3
His history makes the adage 'innocent until proven guilty' a mute point.
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She had pleaded innocent and accused the military government of political persecution.
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Too many innocent Palestinian mothers have lost their children to this conflict.
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Leaders' Questions can be a barren experience at the best of times.
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Abruptly he was no longer in the barren land, no longer falling.
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You will have barren work, to say nothing of incurring some danger.
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The piñon flourishes in the bleak and barren peaks of the rockies.
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The barren, overgrazed ground ringing Amboseli National Park testifies to the result.
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Quite devoid of self-consciousness, Gundabyr stumped forward and held out his hand.
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I am not yet entirely devoid of affection for my family, wizard.
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But Blake's office was virtually devoid of any visible trace of paper.
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The result is a well-defined selection devoid of padding or superfluous submissions.
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Politics is largely governed by sententious platitudes which are devoid of truth.
Usage of destitute in English
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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.
3
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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Destitute across language varieties
United Kingdom
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Ireland
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United States of America
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