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 destitute ['destitju:t]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 穷困的, 缺乏的

  1. He was destitute of human feelings.
    他毫无人的感情。
  2. Lacking funds, resources, or prospects; destitute.
    穷困潦倒的缺乏基金、资源或前途渺茫的；缺乏的
  3. Here is an asylum for the care of mentally ill or destitute people.
    这儿是一家精神病院。


destitute
[ adj ]
  1. poor enough to need help from others

    2. <adj.all>
  2. completely wanting or lacking

    3. <adj.all>
    writing barren of insight
    young recruits destitute of experience
    innocent of literary merit
    the sentence was devoid of meaning


Destitute \Des"ti*tute\, a. [L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere
to set away, leave alone, forsake; de + statuere to set. See
{Statute}.]
1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary,
or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often
followed by of.

In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute.
--Ps. cxli. 8.

Totally destitute of all shadow of influence.
--Burke.

2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of
want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.

They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins;
being destitute, afflicted, tormented. --Heb. xi.
37.


Destitute \Des"ti*tute\, v. t.
1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.]

To forsake or destitute a plantation. --Bacon.

2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; --
followed by of. [Obs.]

Destituted of all honor and livings. --Holinshed.

3. To disappoint. [Obs.]

When his expectation is destituted. --Fotherby.

  1. MRS ELIZABETH Maxwell, widow of the late Robert Maxwell, who last month described herself as 'destitute', is the mystery benefactor helping to pay their son Kevin's legal bills. Her identity was disclosed in the Court of Appeal yesterday.
  2. "Now I am all but destitute," she stated in the suit.
  3. "There is lot of money in garbage," said Gerry J. Pinto of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), who works on the organization's program for destitute children in India.
  4. Today, the sick, the destitute and the homeless, the unlucky and the careless get kicked from one level of government to the next, as down the stairs of a flophouse.
  5. Mother Teresa, who was born in Yugoslavia, won the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize for her work among Calcutta's destitute and dying.
  6. Anna left him, returned to Paris and robbed his studio of paintings and other valuables, leaving him practically destitute.
  7. Many banks failed after the 1929 crash, leaving even some of those who had savings destitute.
  8. Winfield, a homeless woman, was reported to the family services agency because of the destitute position in which she and her family were found, he said.
  9. He described himself as liberator of the destitute.
  10. This destitute city of more than 1 million people has long been not only unsightly, but woefully unsanitary, with chest-high heaps of garbage on every corner, and sometimes even in the middle of the street.
  11. President Clinton's intervention in Haiti was partly a defence against an influx of destitute boat people.
  12. Beijing also accused Taiwan of launching a "dollar offensive" to secure diplomatic relations with small, destitute countries.
  13. The action was justified because she was trying to find housing for the destitute and call attention to the plight of the more than 2,000 homeless people in Denver, her attorneys, Diana DeGette and Chuck Owens, argued on Tuesday.
  14. Les Brown, executive director of the non-profit Coalition for the Homeless, said about 40,000 people became destitute and homeless in Chicago in the past 12 months, and the number is increasing about 25 percent a year.
  15. Many victims are destitute minors.
  16. PIONEERS' HOMES: Six state-run retirement homes for those over 65 who have been continuous residents for at least 15 years. Exception to age requirement for the destitute.
  17. Just three years after he won the Illinois lottery jackpot, Charles Brownlee is headed back to prison as a destitute and remorseful man.
  18. Author Charles Webb, who wrote "The Graduate," and his ex-wife Fred have moved out of the home of a woman who aided the destitute couple because of a "difference of opinion on nudism," Webb said.
  19. He says he is nearly destitute, living out of a van on a few thousand dollars a year.
  20. Indian director Mira Nair won the Golden Camera award given to the best young director for her film "Salaam Bombay," shot in the streets of that Indian city, that tells the story of a group of destitute children.
  21. Some of us, who were personal or official participants in the days when the U.S. was able to supply needed material and morale boosts to a destitute nation, now rejoice that the better life we thought possible for Korea has come to fruition.
  22. Hundreds of nuns of Missionaries of Charity, the headquarters of her worldwide charity that cares for the destitute and the dying on six continents, prayed for her recovery Saturday.
  23. Naples (Fla.) Daily News, for its special report on destitute Haitian, Mexican and Guatemalan migrant workers who had been victimized by slumlords.
  24. Mother Teresa, who won the Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the poor and destitute, has been admitted to the intensive care unit of a Calcutta hospital with a heart ailment, doctors said Thursday.
  25. Doctors said they have decided to place a temporary pacemaker to help the ailing heart of the frail 79-year-old nun, who has dedicated her life to the destitute and dying.
  26. He told his foreign ministry staff that the Soviet Union isn't truly a great power because by "praying unduly assiduously to the idols of pseudo-ideology, we made our people, the whole country, destitute."
  27. "I'm delighted and I'm a little surprised" by the verdict, said O'Brien, who had argued that Markowski, homeless and destitute, had sold his blood in desperation.
  28. Knowles said his department would provide medical care as well as some provisions for destitute evacuees.
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