The Collaborative International Dictionary
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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vb. (present participle of beggar English)
Usage examples of "beggaring".
Part of his mirth had been caused by the wonderful joke he would play on Roelstra, for instead of beggaring himself and his or making odious concessions to the High Prince, there was unlimited gold to fill his coffers even after the grotesque sum paid for the dranath.
Not only was Horace making a continuous fool of her, she thought bitterly, but he seemed hell bent on beggaring her and theirs as well.
His inscrutable face which was really a work of art, a perfect study in itself, beggaring description, conveyed the impression that he didn't understand one jot of what was going on.
But go on, I have tried MY best to save you from beggaring yourself by your riotous charities--now for the thousandth time I wash my hands of the consequences.
Not for us the panting humiliations of the flesh‑is it not a finer thing, I ask you, to eschew procreation‑to avoid adding one more miserable human life to the vast multitudes which are presently beggaring our country‑and, instead, to bend our energies to the task of giving them more land to stand on?
That she should find her True Love here, the week before Armageddon, is good fortune beggaring the imagination.