| beggar | reduce to beggary, impoverish, make destitute |
| beggared | impoverished, destitute, depleted |
| beggarly | destitute, impoverished, poverty-stricken |
| decay | destitute person, case of hardship |
| decayed | ruined, destitute, impoverished |
| destitute | abandoned, deserted, forsaken |
| forlorn | wretched, abandoned, destitute |
| heel | penniless, destitute, in desperate straights |
| ruin | [metaphor for] destitute, case of hardship |