Antonyms for beggared
| Grammar : Adj, verb |
| Spell : beg-er |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɛg ər |
- adequate
- adorn
- affluent
- aid
- assist
- beautify
- build
- construct
- create
- cure
- decorate
- develop
- encourage
- enlarged
- enriched
- expand
- fertile
- fill
- fix
- flourishing
- fortunate
- full
- give
- great
- grow
- happy
- heal
- help
- honor
- increase
- increased
- inspirit
- intact
- invigorate
- let go
- lose
- lucky
- mend
- mended
- moneyed
- ornament
- plentiful
- potent
- praise
- preserved
- privileged
- prosperous
- protect
- protected
- repair
- repaired
- restored
- rich
- sanctify
- saved
- secure
- solvent
- strengthen
- strong
- successful
- sufficient
- superior
- surrender
- wealthy
- well-to-do
- yield
Definition of beggared
Origin :- "reduce to poverty," mid-15c., from beggar (n.). Related: Beggared; beggaring. Figurative use by 1640s.
- As in indigent : adj poor
- As in needy : adj deprived, impoverished
- As in poor : adj lacking sufficient money
- As in poverty-stricken : adj very poor
- As in strapped : adj destitute
- As in bereft : adj lacking; missing
- As in broke : adj without money
- As in ruined : adj bankrupt
- As in necessitous : adj poor
- As in destitute : adj down and out; wanting
- As in down-and-out : adj destitute
- As in impecunious : adj poverty-stricken
- As in impoverished : adj poor, exhausted
- As in ruin : verb devastate, destroy
- As in pauperize : verb ruin
- If I have squandered his fortune, he has beggared me in reputation.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- Not a passing glance was turned from the board to look after the beggared gambler.
- Extract from : « Jack Hinton » by Charles James Lever
- "If I gave you that, it would leave me beggared," he said gravely.
- Extract from : « Nell, of Shorne Mills » by Charles Garvice
- It wasn't exactly "beggared" a one that he said, but that is near enough.
- Extract from : « The Shellback's Progress » by Walter Runciman
- The result was, his principal was beggared, and Joslin rose on his ruins.
- Extract from : « The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 » by Various
- His was a name that stood for millions, but he was beggared of hope and purpose.
- Extract from : « Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 » by Lucy Maud Montgomery
- After I have beggared myself with his troublesome lawsuit, with a plague to him!
- Extract from : « The History of John Bull » by John Arbuthnot
- You don't think so, but I tell you that, if you let it go on, you will be beggared.
- Extract from : « The Light Shines in Darkness » by Leo Tolstoy
- Dead men could not be beggared, deprived of their independence.
- Extract from : « Five Tales » by John Galsworthy
- He was beggared for words with which to formulate adequately his dissent.
- Extract from : « Strictly Business » by O. Henry
Synonyms for beggared
- bad off
- bankrupt
- barren
- beaten
- beggar
- beggared
- beggarly
- behind eight ball
- bereaved
- bereft
- botch
- break
- bring down
- bring to ruin
- broke
- broken
- bust
- busted
- clean
- clean out
- cleaned out
- crush
- cut off
- dead broke
- decimate
- deface
- defeat
- defeated
- deficient
- defile
- demolish
- deplete
- depleted
- deplore
- depredate
- deprived
- deprived of
- derelict
- desecrate
- despoil
- destitute
- devoid
- devoid of
- devour
- dilapidate
- dirt poor
- disadvantaged
- disfigure
- dispossessed
- distressed
- divested
- do in
- down and out
- down at heel
- down to last cent
- down-and-out
- drain
- drained
- empty
- empty-handed
- exhaust
- exhausted
- finished
- flat
- flat broke
- fleece
- fleeced
- fortuneless
- gone under
- hard up
- have-not
- homeless
- hurting
- impecunious
- impencunious
- impoverish
- impoverished
- in Chapter 11
- in debt
- in dire circumstances
- in great need; financially poor
- in need
- in need of
- in the gutter
- in the poorhouse
- in the red
- in want
- indebted
- indigent
- injure
- insolvent
- lacking
- lay waste
- left without
- low
- maim
- make a mess of
- mangle
- mar
- meager
- minus
- miserably poor
- moneyless
- mutilate
- naked
- necessitous
- needful
- needy
- on one's uppers
- on the breadline
- on the rocks
- on the skids
- out of business
- out of funds
- out of money
- outcast
- overthrow
- overturn
- overwhelm
- parted from
- pauperize
- pauperized
- penniless
- penurious
- pillage
- pinched
- played out
- poor
- poverty-stricken
- rape
- ravish
- raze
- reduce
- reduced
- robbed
- ruined
- sack
- scanty
- shatter
- shorn
- short
- smash
- spent
- spoil
- spoilate
- sterile
- stone broke
- stone-broke
- stony
- stranded
- strapped
- stripped
- suffering
- tapped out
- total
- totaled
- truly needy
- underprivileged
- unmoneyed
- unprosperous
- use up
- vagabond
- vagrant
- wanting
- wipe out
- wiped out
- without
- wrack
- wreak havoc on
- wreck
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