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beggar

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: beggar

1
 nv
a pauper who lives by begging
reduce to beggary
2
 v
be beyond the resources of
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: beggar
1

n a pauper who lives by begging

Synonyms:
mendicant
Examples:
Lazarus
the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggar
Types:
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beggarman
a man who is a beggar
beggarwoman
a woman who is a beggar
cadger, mooch, moocher, scrounger
someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
panhandler
a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money
sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi
a Hindu religious mendicant
schnorrer, shnorrer
(Yiddish) a scrounger who takes advantage of the generosity of others
Type of:
pauper
a person who is very poor

v reduce to beggary

Synonyms:
pauperise, pauperize
Type of:
impoverish
make poor
2

v be beyond the resources of

“This beggars description!”
Type of:
defy, refuse, resist
elude, especially in a baffling way
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