verb
- present participle of destitute; reducing to extreme poverty or deprivation; leaving without necessary resources
Usage: formal or legal usage; archaic or rare in modern English
Examples
- The war was destituting entire villages of food and shelter.
- Unfair taxation policies were accused of destituting the working class.
- The natural disaster left families destituting in its aftermath.
- Historical accounts describe colonial practices as destituting indigenous populations.
- Economic collapse was destituting thousands of families across the region.