Significados de reduce to penury en inglés

All went well until 1848, when the factory burned down and the family was reduced to penury.

In extreme cases, bouts of retaliatory entertaining continue until one side is reduced to penury, leaving the winner not much better off.

Even the insatiate Trust Magnates, were they suddenly to be reduced to penury, would shield their wives, their daughters and their indigent.

Reduced to penury and with only a few friends prepared to risk association with him, he soon suffered from cancer of the stomach.

And what consequence but total ruin can arise from the prosecution of measures, by which we are already reduced to penury and contempt?