adjective
- reduced to poverty; made extremely poor
verb
- past tense of beggar: to make extremely poor or to exceed the limits of
Examples
- The family was beggared by medical expenses.
- The war beggared the entire nation.
- His extravagant lifestyle beggared his fortune.
- The complexity of the problem beggared description.
- She found herself beggared after the business failed.
- The hurricane beggared the coastal communities.
- His generosity beggared his own resources.