How to pronounce“beggar”in English
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Definitions of “beggar”
A person who begs.
““[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.”
A person suffering from extreme poverty.
“I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!”
To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.
“`Now,' answered Ayesha, with proud humility - `now when my lord doth speak thus royally and give with so free a hand, it cannot become me to lag behind in words, and be beggared of my generosity.'”
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