I. noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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You can give beggars vouchers for food instead of cash.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A beggar lad showed us the house in a dank, narrow alleyway where Mistress Hopkins lived.
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I imagined the beggar from the London streets sitting with the old woman Khadija in my village.
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Rome had probably more than the average number of beggars.
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The young beggar took the money wetted his finger and carefully counted the bills-twice.
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When Eumaeus came back he found the old beggar he had left.
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Without clothes, under his first blanket, he could have been the child of a king or a beggar .
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Floods combined with falling prices to beggar whole communities of farmers.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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In Gravity's Rainbow, conspiracies proliferate to such an extent that they beggar description.
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The thought of la belle dame de Bruges coming out with such stuff beggars belief.
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The vast panorama of teeming Life and Creation opened up to us through the teachings of Esotericism beggars human thought.