adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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In 1860 Father Murphy set up a home for orphans and destitute children.
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The floods left many people destitute .
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The rest of her family all died in a smallpox epidemic, leaving her destitute .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But when they first meet, as children, she is a destitute peasant girl called Firecrackers.
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Everywhere he went, people were destitute , and all of those people offered him something to eat.
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Meanwhile his Society's inefficiency left him destitute .
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Six years before, she had shocked her family and class by marrying a destitute Berkeley law student.
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The first was from a destitute young woman about to be evicted and threatening to gas her four children, then herself.