单词 | beggar |
释义 | beggar (begəʳ ) Word forms: beggars , beggaring , beggared 1. countable noun A beggar is someone who lives by asking people for money or food. 2. verb If something beggars a person, country, or organization, it makes them very poor. He warned that lifting copyright restrictions could beggar the industry. [VERB noun] Synonyms: defy, challenge, defeat, frustrate 3. beggar belief/beggar description phrase If something beggars belief, it is impossible to believe it. If something beggars description, it is impossible to describe it. The statistics beggar belief. His courage beggars description. Collocations: street beggar A street beggar would find our pension insulting, having worked and paid taxes all our lives. The Sun His clothes were so dilapidated that many mistook him for a common street beggar, and would put a penny into his hand as they passed. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Fake street beggars are pretending to be sleeping rough in order to earn up to 700 in a week, police have claimed. Times, Sunday Times Translations: Chinese: 乞丐 Japanese: 乞食 |
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