Definition of Destitution

Des`ti`tu´tion
n.1.The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; extreme poverty; utter want; as, the inundation caused general destitution.


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absence, adversity, bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, drought, empty purse, famine, grinding poverty, gripe, hand-to-mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, imperfection, impoverishment, incompleteness, indigence, lack, mendicancy, misfortune, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, omission, pauperism, pauperization, penury, pinch, privation, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, want, wantage


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