Usually means: Extreme poverty; lack of resources.
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General (23 matching dictionaries)
  1. destitution: Merriam-Webster
  2. destitution: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. destitution: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. destitution: Collins English Dictionary
  5. destitution: Vocabulary.com
  6. Destitution, destitution: Wordnik
  7. destitution: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. destitution: Wiktionary
  9. destitution: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. destitution: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. destitution: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Destitution, destitution: Dictionary.com
  13. Destitution: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Destitution: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. destitution: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. destitution: Rhymezone
  17. destitution: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. destitution: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. destitution: FreeDictionary.org
  20. destitution: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. destitution: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. destitution: Legal dictionary

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  1. destitution: Encyclopedia

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

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) The action of deserting or abandoning.
noun:  (now rare) Discharge from office; dismissal.
noun:  The condition of lacking something.
noun:  An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support.

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