Synonyms for beggar
ˈbɛg ərbeg·gar

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1. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   ruin

2. beggarverb

   To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.

   Synonyms:
   spanger, mendicant, panhandler, schnorrer, truant, ruin

3. beggarnoun

   To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

   Synonyms:
   ruin

4. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   palliard, pauper, vagabond

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1. beggar

   Synonyms:
   mendicant, petitioner, suitor, suppliant, applicant

   Antonyms:
   exactor, extortioner

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1. beggar, mendicantverb

   a pauper who lives by begging

   Synonyms:
   friar, mendicant

2. beggarverb

   be beyond the resources of

   "This beggars description!"

   Synonyms:
   pauperize, pauperise

3. beggar, pauperize, pauperiseverb

   reduce to beggary

   Synonyms:
   pauperize, pauperise

Matched Categories

1. • Defy
   • Impoverish

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1. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   mendicant, pauper, starveling, poor or indigent person

2. beggarverb

   Synonyms:
   impoverish, ruin, render poor, reduce to poverty, bring to want

3. beggarverb

   Synonyms:
   surpass, exceed, go beyond, be above, put at fault, show to be inadequate

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1. beggarnoun

   Synonyms:
   mendicant, starveling, fakir, vagrant, eleemosynary, prog, tramp, bezonian, mumper, schnorrer (Jewish)

2. beggarverb

   Synonyms:
   impoverish, ruin, exhaust, surpass, go beyond

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1. List of paraphrases for "beggar":

   bum, hobo, tramp

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1. Marcus Aurelius:

   Then isn’t it better to do what’s up to you - like a free man - than to be passively controlled by what isn’t, like a slave or a beggar?

2. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

   Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.

3. Prakash Adhikari:

   Human beings are unsatisfied beggar.

4. Rudyard Kipling:

   He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

5. Martin Luther King:

   True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice that produces beggars needs restructuring.