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destitute 音标拼音: [d'ɛstət ,ut] a. 困穷的,缺乏的 困穷的,缺乏的 destitute adj 1: poor enough to need help from others [ synonym: { destitute}, { impoverished}, { indigent}, { necessitous}, { needy}, { poverty- stricken}] 2: completely wanting or lacking; " writing barren of insight"; " young recruits destitute of experience"; " innocent of literary merit"; " the sentence was devoid of meaning" [ synonym: { barren}, { destitute}, { devoid}, { free}, { innocent}] Destitute \ Des" ti* tute\, a. [ L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere to set away, leave alone, forsake; de statuere to set. See { Statute}.] 1. Forsaken; not having in possession ( something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. [ 1913 Webster] In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. -- Ps. cxli. 8. [ 1913 Webster] Totally destitute of all shadow of influence. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. [ 1913 Webster] They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. -- Heb. xi. 37. [ 1913 Webster]
Destitute \ Des" ti* tute\, v. t. 1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] To forsake or destitute a plantation. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Destituted of all honor and livings. -- Holinshed. [ 1913 Webster] 3. To disappoint. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] When his expectation is destituted. -- Fotherby. [ 1913 Webster] 47 Moby Thesaurus words for " destitute": badly off, bankrupt, bereft of, broke, broken, busted, deficient, depleted, deprived of, destitute of, devoid of, divested, down- and- out, drained, empty, exhausted, failed, fortuneless, hard up, homeless, impecunious, impoverished, in need, in receivership, in the gutter, in the red, in want, indigent, innocent, insolvent, landless, moneyless, necessitous, needy, on the rocks, out of funds, penniless, penurious, poor, poverty, poverty- stricken, propertyless, ruined, stripped, void, without, without a sou
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