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Impoverish :: Impoverish (v. t.) To make poor; to reduce to poverty or indigence; as, misfortune and disease impoverish families..

Necessitous :: Necessitous (a.) Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty.

Recover :: Recover (v. i.) To regain health after sickness; to grow well; to be restored or cured; hence, to regain a former state or condition after misfortune, alarm, etc.; -- often followed by of or from; as, to recover from a state of poverty; to recover from fright..

Indigence :: Indigence (n.) The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence..

Depauperize :: Depauperize (v. t.) To free from paupers; to rescue from poverty.

Side :: Side (n.) Fig.: Aspect or part regarded as contrasted with some other; as, the bright side of poverty..

Gripe :: Gripe (n.) Oppression; cruel exaction; affiction; pinching distress; as, the gripe of poverty..

Inhabitancy :: Inhabitancy (n.) The state of having legal right to claim the privileges of a recognized inhabitant; especially, the right to support in case of poverty, acquired by residence in a town; habitancy..

Ruinate :: Ruinate (v. t.) To demolish; to subvert; to destroy; to reduce to poverty; to ruin.

Destitution :: Destitution (n.) 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..

Beggary :: Beggary (n.) The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

Pressure :: Pressure (n.) A contrasting force or impulse of any kind; as, the pressure of poverty; the pressure of taxes; the pressure of motives on the mind; the pressure of civilization..

Impoverishment :: Impoverishment (n.) The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty..

Fratricelli :: Fratricelli (n. pl.) A sect which seceded from the Franciscan Order, chiefly in Italy and Sicily, in 1294, repudiating the pope as an apostate, maintaining the duty of celibacy and poverty, and discountenancing oaths. Called also Fratricellians and Fraticelli..

Regular :: Regular (a.) A member of any religious order or community who has taken the vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, and who has been solemnly recognized by the church..

Beggarly :: Beggarly (a.) In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean; poor; contemptible..

Emerge :: Emerge (v. i.) To rise out of a fluid; to come forth from that in which anything has been plunged, enveloped, or concealed; to issue and appear; as, to emerge from the water or the ocean; the sun emerges from behind the moon in an eclipse; to emerge from poverty or obscurity..

Want :: Want (v. i.) Specifically, absence or lack of necessaries; destitution; poverty; penury; indigence; need..

Tenuity :: Tenuity (n.) Poverty; indigence.

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