Usually means: Reducing someone to extreme poverty.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word beggaring:

General (12 matching dictionaries)
  1. beggaring: Merriam-Webster
  2. beggaring: Collins English Dictionary
  3. beggaring: Vocabulary.com
  4. beggaring: Wordnik
  5. beggaring: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. beggaring: Wiktionary
  7. Beggaring, beggaring: Dictionary.com
  8. Beggaring: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. Beggaring: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. beggaring: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. beggaring: FreeDictionary.org
  12. beggaring: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggaring: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggaring: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. beggaring: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(Note: See beggar as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (beggar)

noun:  A person who begs.
noun:  A person suffering from extreme poverty.
noun:  (colloquial, sometimes endearing) A mean or wretched person; a scoundrel.
noun:  (UK) A minced oath for bugger.
verb:  (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
verb:  (transitive, figurative) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo or go beyond.
▸ Also see beggar


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