beggar
noun
has beggared
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present perfectof beggar (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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So, while Saudis may grumble, it is doubtful they will stir the kind of strife that has beggared their neighbors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 2, 2016
Once again Africa in general, and the unfortunate nation of Rwanda in particular, has beggared Western experience and imagination.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet they go on, rich to-day because they have beggared their neighbor, poor to-morrow because their neighbor has beggared them.
From Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart by Amanda Minnie Douglas
I am Jacek Borodenko, and the fiend has beggared me and mine entirely.
From For the Right by Karl Emil Franzos
"Well, then, it has beggared many a man before you; and we shall see how long you'll keep it up—that's all."
From Rachel Gray by Julia Kavanagh
