About The Word Destitution
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Destitution
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What's The Definition Of Destitution?
[n] a state without friends or money or prospects
Synonyms | Synonyms for Destitution: Related Terms | Find terms related to Destitution: absence | adversity | bare cupboard | bare subsistence | beggarliness | beggary | dearth | defectiveness | deficiency | deficit | deprivation | drought | empty purse | famine | grinding poverty | gripe | hand-to-mouth existence | homelessness | impecuniousness | imperfection | impoverishment | incompleteness | indigence | lack | mendicancy | misfortune | moneylessness | necessitousness | necessity | need | neediness | omission | pauperism | pauperization | penury | pinch | privation | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | starvation | want | wantage See Also | impoverishment | poorness | poverty Destitution In Webster's Dictionary \Des`ti*tu"tion\, n. [L. destitutio a forsaking.]
The state of being deprived of anything; the state or
condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources;
deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the
inundation caused general destitution.
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