beggaring
Reducing to destitution
Beggaring means reducing to poverty or exhausting resources: The medical bills were beggaring the family.
More often it appears in the phrase beggars description or beggars belief, meaning something is so extreme it defeats any attempt to describe or believe it: The scale of the disaster beggars imagination.
Causing extreme poverty
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- povertySevere lack of resources
- penuryExtreme lack of money
- indigenceExtreme poverty, total want
privation · want · neediness · hardship · insolvency · bankruptcy · squalor · dispossession
Actively refusing obedience
- surpassingGoing beyond in quality
- transcendingExceeding normal bounds
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
- staggeringShockingly impressive or unsteady
astounding · confounding · baffling · beyond · unfathomable · incomprehensible · indescribable · unimaginable
Loss of dignity
- abasementState of being lowered
- debasementDiminishing worth or purity
- disgraceLoss of honor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
dishonor · demotion · discredit · lowering · diminishing · reducing · stripping · debasing
Causing severe damage
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- wreckingDestroying completely
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
- underminingWeakening by covert means
crippling · collapsing · undoing · breaking · shattering · ravaging · decimating · laying waste
pauperizing
Causing extreme poverty
- destitutionExtreme poverty, lacking necessities
- povertySevere lack of resources
- penuryExtreme lack of money
indigence · privation · want · neediness · hardship · insolvency · bankruptcy · squalor · dispossession · ruination
defying
Actively refusing obedience
- surpassingGoing beyond in quality
- transcendingExceeding normal bounds
- overwhelmingIntensely excessive in force
staggering · astounding · confounding · baffling · beyond · unfathomable · incomprehensible · indescribable · unimaginable · ineffable
humiliation
Loss of dignity
- abasementState of being lowered
- debasementDiminishing worth or purity
- disgraceLoss of honor
shame · dishonor · demotion · discredit · lowering · diminishing · reducing · stripping · debasing · demeaning
devastating
Causing severe damage
- destroyingCausing complete ruin
- wreckingDestroying completely
- crushingOverwhelming in intensity
undermining · crippling · collapsing · undoing · breaking · shattering · ravaging · decimating · laying waste · bringing down
beggaringenriching
Adding worth or nutrients
endowing · prospering · bankrolling · capitalizing · aggrandizing
beggaringreplenishing
Restoring to fullness
furnishing · supplying · provisioning · stocking · sustaining
beg, begging, beggar, beggars, beggarly, beggary, beggared, beggarwoman, beggarman