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beggared

adjective as in ruined

adjective as in strapped

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Immigration and tax policy are just as beggared and threadbare and awful.

Beggared but an hour agone, and now you must come and tell me I have lost her by losing house and lands!

Cockayne is Naples in these pages—Naples given over to the lottery, crazed, debauched and beggared by it.

But it was soon mang by her son and his beggared followers, and there was often real misery in that little Court at the Louvre.

I envy not the triumph of those who have troubled the waters; who have laid waste the South, who have beggared her proud people.

He gave away enormous sums in charity, and founded a hospital at Bath, the expenses of which for a time almost beggared him.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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