Definition of "beggared" [beggared]

• Simple past tense and past participle of beggar. (verb)

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• "A doorway in the heavens-the idea beggared reason."
• "(It wasn't exactly "beggared" a one that he said, but that is near enough.) "D'ye mean to tell me," said Captain Rush (as he frothed with wrath),"
• "In May, 1593, sick, and 'tumbled down the hill by every practice,' he would go on exclaiming against the administrative blunders which had let England be baffled and 'beggared' by a nation without fortifications, and, for long, without effective arms."