beggar
Noun
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A pauper who lives by begging (synset 109866418)
is a type of: pauper - a person who is very poorsubtypes:
- beggarman - a man who is a beggar
- beggarwoman - a woman who is a beggar
- cadger, mooch, moocher, scrounger - someone who mooches or cadges (tries to get something free)
- panhandler - a beggar who approaches strangers asking for money
- sannyasi, sannyasin, sanyasi - a Hindu religious mendicant
specific instances: lazarus - the diseased beggar in Jesus' parable of the rich man and the beggarsame as: mendicant
Verb
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Be beyond the resources of (synset 202713541)
"This beggars description!"
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Reduce to beggary (synset 202322950)
is a type of: impoverish - make poor
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