Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Määritelmät
Substantiivit
- A person who begs.
- A person suffering from extreme poverty.
Verbit
- (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
- (transitive) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.
Esimerkit
- “[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.
- I'm to be a poor, crawling beggar, sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
- Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a beggar.
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