Beggar

['begə] or ['bɛɡɚ]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) a pauper who lives by begging.

(verb.) reduce to beggary.

(verb.) be beyond the resources of; 'This beggars description!'.

編輯:曼纽尔--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) One who begs; one who asks or entreats earnestly, or with humility; a petitioner.

(n.) One who makes it his business to ask alms.

(n.) One who is dependent upon others for support; -- a contemptuous or sarcastic use.

(n.) One who assumes in argument what he does not prove.

(v. t.) To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself.

(v. t.) To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.

整理:利亚

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person.

v. a. [1]. Impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want.[2]. Surpass, exceed, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate.

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同義詞及反義詞：

SYN:Mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant

ANT:Exactor, extortioner

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