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Meanings of reduced to penury in English
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Usage of reduced to penury in English
1
All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury.
2
In extreme cases, bouts of retaliatory entertaining continue until one side is reduced to penury, leaving the winner not much better off.
3
Even the insatiate Trust Magnates, were they suddenly to be reduced to penury, would shield their wives, their daughters and their indigent.
4
And what consequence but total ruin can arise from the prosecution of measures, by which we are already reduced to penury and contempt?
5
Reduced to penury and with only a few friends prepared to risk association with him, he soon suffered from cancer of the stomach.