Definition of destitute

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Destitute (a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of..

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Apodes :: Apodes (n. pl.) A group of holothurians destitute of suckers. See Apneumona.
Helpless :: Helpless (a.) Destitute of help or strength; unable to help or defend one's self; needing help; feeble; weak; as, a helpless infant..
Wineless :: Wineless (a.) destitute of wine; as, wineless life..
Bald :: Bald (a.) Destitute of a beard or awn; as, bald wheat..
Lorettine :: Lorettine (n.) One of a order of nuns founded in 1812 at Loretto, in Kentucky. The members of the order (called also Sisters of Loretto, or Friends of Mary at the Foot of the Cross) devote themselves to the cause of education and the care of destitute orphans, their labors being chiefly confined to the Western United States..
Moolley :: Moolley (a.) Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow..
Roadless :: Roadless (a.) Destitute of roads.
Rightless :: Rightless (a.) Destitute of right.
Insensate :: Insensate (a.) Wanting sensibility; destitute of sense; stupid; foolish.
Strip :: Strip (v. t.) To deprive; to bereave; to make destitute; to plunder; especially, to deprive of a covering; to skin; to peel; as, to strip a man of his possession, his rights, his privileges, his reputation; to strip one of his clothes; to strip a beast of his skin; to strip a tree of its bark..
Motherless :: Motherless (a.) Destitute of a mother; having lost a mother; as, motherless children..
Apterous :: Apterous (a.) Destitute of wings; apteral; as, apterous insects..
Taster :: Taster (n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora..
Nerveless :: Nerveless (a.) Destitute of nerves.
Nonvascular :: Nonvascular (a.) Destitute of vessels; extravascular.
Ruleless :: Ruleless (a.) Destitute of rule; lawless.
Fleshless :: Fleshless (a.) Destitute of flesh; lean.
Ratitae :: Ratitae (n. pl.) An order of birds in which the wings are small, rudimentary, or absent, and the breastbone is destitute of a keel. The ostrich, emu, moa, and apteryx are examples..
Windowless :: Windowless (a.) Destitute of a window.
Empty :: Empty (v. t.) To deprive of the contents; to exhaust; to make void or destitute; to make vacant; to pour out; to discharge; as, to empty a vessel; to empty a well or a cistern..
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