destitute

About 1.94 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Lacking something; devoid.
2. adjective Lacking money, poor, impoverished; especially, extremely so.
3. verb To impoverish; to strip of wealth, resources, etc.

Similar words

indigent poor impoverished poverty-stricken needy necessitous dispossessed poverty indigence deprived

Often followed by

of and children condition in as people persons women

Word family

destituteness destitutenesses