beggar woman

A woman who is a beggar. IMG:content-1193.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To impoverish. (Used of an exchequer or of finances.) her merchants were to be undersold, her customer a decoyed away, her exchequer beggared ."Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., ch. xxiv. 2. To deprive. (Followed by of . ) "Nece ity, of matter beggar'd , Will nothing stick our person to arraign In ear and ear." Shakesp.: Hamlet, iv. 5. 3. To exhaust; to tax to the utmost the power of. "It beggar'd all description." Shakesp. Antony & Cleopatra , ii. 2.