Meaning & use
beggar
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a person who lives by asking others for money or food, especially on the street
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A beggar sat quietly near the station entrance, holding out a paper cup.
In the old story, a disguised king wanders the land as a beggar to test his subjects' kindness.
A note on using this word
As a verb, 'to beggar' means to reduce to poverty or, figuratively, to exceed description, as in the phrase 'beggars belief.'
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Another way to use it
2. verb
to reduce someone to poverty, or to be too extraordinary to be adequately described
The scale of the fraud beggars belief.
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