Definition of "beggaring" [beggaring]

• Present participle of beggar. (verb)

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• "And most disappointing for me that these jackals who were responsible for beggaring America have not been held criminally accountable."
• "Hasn't the Bank of England been recklessly bolstering prices and beggaring the very thrift it should have been encouraging?"
• "Their looting and beggaring of the state and the society—something about which we now possess even more painfully exact information—was having the same effect."