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destitute

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English

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Pronunciation

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(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈdɛstɪtjuːt/
(yod-coalescence)IPA^(key): /ˈdɛstɪtʃuːt/
(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈdɛstɪtuːt/
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Hyphenation:des‧ti‧tute

Etymology 1

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FromMiddle Englishdestitute,destitut, fromLatindēstitūtus.

Adjective

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destitute (comparativemoredestitute,superlativemostdestitute)

(followed by the preposition "of")Lacking something;devoid.
- 1827, James Fenimore Cooper, chapter 9, inThe Prairie:
  Now, though this region may scarcely be said to be wedded to science, being to all intents a virgin territory as respects the enquirer into natural history, still it is greatlydestitute of the treasures of the vegetable kingdom.
- 1611,The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […],→OCLC,Psalms 141:8:
  In thee is my trust; leave not my souldestitute.
Lackingmoney,poor,impoverished; especially, extremely so.
Near-synonym:penniless
- 1841 February–November,Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. Chapter 45.”, inMaster Humphrey’s Clock, volume III, London:Chapman & Hall, […],→OCLC:
  ‘Do you know how pinched anddestitute I am?’ she retorted. ‘I do not think you do, or can. If you had eyes, and could look around you on this poor place, you would have pity on me.[…]’
  In 1907 he moved from St. Louis to New York City, arriving as a famous composer. But he died a decade later at the age of 49,destitute in an asylum on Wards Island as ragtime was fading in popularity.
- 1918,Aurora Mardiganian, translated by Henry Leyford Gates,Ravished Armenia:
  according to the most careful estimates, 3,950,000destitute peoples, mostly women and children who had been driven many of them as far as one thousand miles from home, turn their pitiful faces toward America for help in the reconstructive period in which we are now living.
- 1961 November 10,Joseph Heller, “The Eternal City”, inCatch-22 […], New York, N.Y.:Simon and Schuster,→OCLC,page428:
  He wondered how many people weredestitute that same night even in his own prosperous country, how many homes were shanties, how many husbands were drunk and wives socked, and how many children were bullied, abused or abandoned.
- May 24, 2018, Alex Vadukul inThe New York Times,The Forgotten Entertainer Rag

lacking something, devoid

Arabic:^{(pleaseverify)}معدم
Bulgarian:^{(pleaseverify)}лишен (bg)(lišen)
Catalan:^{(pleaseverify)}indigent (ca)
Finnish:vailla (fi)
French:^{(pleaseverify)}démuni (fr)
Georgian:^{(pleaseverify)}ღარიბი (ka)(ɣaribi)
German:^{(pleaseverify)}mittellos (de),^{(pleaseverify)}völlig verarmt,^{(pleaseverify)}bettelarm (de)
Irish:^{(pleaseverify)}díothach,^{(pleaseverify)}ainbhleitheach,^{(pleaseverify)}dealbh (ga),^{(pleaseverify)}dealúsach,^{(pleaseverify)}díchairdiúil
Italian:^{(pleaseverify)}destituito (it)
Japanese:please add this translation if you can
Korean:^{(pleaseverify)}결핍한(gyeolpiphan)
Latin:^{(pleaseverify)}egens,^{(pleaseverify)}inops
Malayalam:^{(pleaseverify)}അഗതി (ml)(agati)
Maori:^{(pleaseverify)}rawakore,^{(pleaseverify)}pākorehā,^{(pleaseverify)}tuakoka
Plautdietsch:^{(pleaseverify)}oam
Polish:pozbawiony (czegoś)
Romanian:^{(pleaseverify)}indigent,^{(pleaseverify)}lipsit (ro),^{(pleaseverify)}nevoiaș (ro),^{(pleaseverify)}sărac (ro)
Russian:^{(pleaseverify)}бедный (ru)(bednyj),^{(pleaseverify)}нищий (ru)(niščij)
Spanish:indigente (es),destituido (es)(rare),desprovisto (es)
Ukrainian:^{(pleaseverify)}позбавлений (uk) m(pozbavlenyj)(чогось)

poor, impoverished, poverty-stricken

Dutch:onbemiddeld (nl)
Finnish:varaton (fi),köyhä (fi)
French:démuni (fr),indigent (fr)
Polish:ubogi (pl)
Spanish:que notiene donde caerse muerto,muerto de hambre (es)
Ukrainian:бідний (uk) m(bidnyj),нужденний m(nuždennyj),

Etymology 2

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FromMiddle Englishdestituten, from the adjective (see above).

Verb

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destitute (third-person singular simple presentdestitutes,present participledestituting,simple past and past participledestituted)