Usually means: Lacking all money and resources.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. destitute, the destitute: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. destitute: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. destitute: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. destitute: Collins English Dictionary
  5. destitute: Vocabulary.com
  6. Destitute, destitute: Wordnik
  7. destitute: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. destitute: Wiktionary
  9. destitute: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. destitute: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. destitute: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Destitute, destitute: Dictionary.com
  13. destitute: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. destitute: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Destitute: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Destitute: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. destitute: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. destitute: Rhymezone
  19. destitute: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. destitute: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. destitute: Free Dictionary
  22. destitute: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. destitute: Dictionary/thesaurus

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

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  1. destitute: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. DESTITUTE: Masonic Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. destitute: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See destituteness as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  (followed by the preposition "of") Lacking something; devoid.
adjective:  Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
verb:  (transitive) To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

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