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DESTITUTION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state without friends or money or prospects
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("destitution" is a kind of...):
impoverishment; poorness; poverty (the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions)