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PENNILESS |
Poverty-stricken |
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NEEDY |
Poverty-stricken |
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NEEDINESS |
Poverty |
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POVERT |
Poverty. |
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PENURY |
Extreme poverty |
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NEED |
Extreme poverty |
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RAGS |
Extreme poverty |
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TENUITY |
Poverty; indigence. |
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BREADLINE |
Absolute poverty level |
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NECESSITOUS |
Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. |
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OVERT |
It’s obvious swinging voter is kept in poverty |
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DEPAUPERIZE |
To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty. |
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WANT |
Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution;
poverty; penury; indigence; need. |
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GRIPE |
Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress;
as, the gripe of poverty. |
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RUINATE |
To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to
poverty; to ruin. |
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BEGGARY |
The act of begging; the state of being a beggar;
mendicancy; extreme poverty. |
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IMPOVERISHMENT |
The act of impoverishing, or the state of being
impoverished; reduction to poverty. |
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IMPOVERISH |
To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as,
misfortune and disease impoverish families. |
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SIDE |
Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other;
as, the bright side of poverty. |
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DERVIS |
A Turkish or Persian monk, especially one who professes
extreme poverty and leads an austere life. |
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LOW |
In subjection, poverty, or disgrace; as, to be brought low
by oppression, by want, or by vice. |
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BEGGARLY |
In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a
beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible. |
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ACCOUNT |
To give a satisfactory reason; to tell the cause of; to
explain; -- with for; as, idleness accounts for poverty. |
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INDIGENCE |
The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or
means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless,
indigence. |
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NUN |
A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent,
under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. |