beggar
noun
have beggared
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present perfectof beggar.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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The present, mundane in comparison to what sci-fi of the past promised us, seems to have beggared our collective imagination.
From New York Times ● Sep. 19, 2014
By joining hands in a multiracial transition council, they can lift the international sanctions that have beggared them both.
From Time Magazine Archive
There were only a few francs left, but I would have beggared myself to buy this adventure, and thought it cheap at the price she named.
From The Motor Maid by C. N. (Charles Norris) Williamson
I have beggared my body, but I have not beggared my soul!
From Semiramis and Other Plays Semiramis, Carlotta And The Poet by Olive Tilford Dargan
It isn't the money—the fact that you would have beggared your mother—not quite that.
From Together by Robert Herrick
