2. To cause to seem very poor and inadequate.
[1913 Webster]
It beggared all description. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
beggaring — beg·gar || begÉ™ n. one who begs, panhandler, pauper; impoverished person, indigent; man or boy (Slang) v. destroy, ruin, impoverish … English contemporary dictionary
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