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Beggared
Beggar \Beg"gar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Beggared; p. pr. & vb. n. Beggaring.]
To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.
--Milton.-
To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
It beggared all description.
--Shak.
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beggared
vb. (en-past of: beggar)
Usage examples of "beggared".
Better, far better, had I resisted the calls of my country, and remained with you, than to return and find my happiness gone, and my family beggared, and tossing on the rough billows of adversity, unheeded by the wealthy, and unfriended by all.
Two years later she married a shoemaker, by name Pigozzo--a base, arrant knave who beggared and ill-treated her to such an extent that her brother had to take her home and to provide for her.