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destitute

adjective
🔊/ˈdestɪtjuːt/
🔊/ˈdestɪtuːt/
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  1. without money, food and the other things necessary for life贫困的；贫穷的；赤贫的
    • When he died, his family was left completely destitute.他死时家里一贫如洗。🔊🔊
    • The war left her completely destitute.战争使她完全贫穷。
  2. the destitute
     noun [plural] people who are destitute穷人；贫民
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  3. destitute of something (formal) not having something缺乏；没有；毫无
    • They seem destitute of ordinary human feelings.他们似乎一点人情味都没有。🔊🔊
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    • a man wholly destitute of compassion一个完全怜悯的人
    • a country almost destitute of timber一个几乎是木材匮乏的国家
    4. Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘deserted, abandoned, empty’): from Latin destitutus, past participle of destituere ‘forsake’, from de- ‘away from’ + statuere ‘to place’.