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Noun beggar has 1 sense
  1. beggar, mendicant - a pauper who lives by begging
    --1 is a kind of pauper, poor man
    --1 has particulars:
     beggarman; beggarwoman; Lazarus; moocher, cadger, scrounger; panhandler; sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi
    Derived form: verb beggar2
,Verb beggar has 2 senses
  1. beggar - be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!"
    --1 is one way to     defy, resist, refuse
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s something
  2. beggar, pauperize, pauperise - reduce to beggary
    --2 is one way to impoverish
    Derived form: noun beggar1
    Sample sentence:
    Something ----s somebody
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