beggar

beggar has 9 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• 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.
• n.. a pauper who lives by begging
• v.. reduce to beggary
• v.. be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"