Synonyms of the word

beggar

• n. A person who begs.
• n. A person suffering from extreme poverty.
• v. (transitive) To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
• v. (transitive) To exhaust the resources of; to outdo.

defy

• n. (obsolete) A challenge.
• v. To renounce or dissolve all bonds of affiance, faith, or obligation with; to reject, refuse, or renounce.
• v. To challenge (someone) to do something difficult or impossible.
• v. To refuse to obey.
• v. To not conform to or follow a pattern, set of rules or expectations.

impoverish

• v. (transitive) Make poor.
• v. (transitive) Weaken in quality; deprive of some strength or richness.
• v. (intransitive) Become poor.

mendicant

• adj. Depending on alms for a living.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a beggar.
• adj. Of or pertaining to a member of a religious order forbidden to own property, and who must beg for a living.
• n. A pauper who lives by begging.
• n. A religious friar, forbidden to own personal property, who begs for a living.

pauper

• n. One who is extremely poor.
• n. One living on or eligible for public charity.

pauperise

• v. Alternative spelling of pauperize.

pauperize

• v. To make someone a pauper; to impoverish.

refuse

• adj. Discarded, rejected.
• n. (Britain) Collectively, items or material that have been discarded; rubbish, garbage.
• v. (transitive) To decline (a request or demand).
• v. (intransitive) To decline a request or demand, forbear; to withhold permission.
• v. (military) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the centre, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To disown.
• n. (obsolete) refusal.

resist

• v. (transitive) To attempt to counter the actions or effects of.
• v. (transitive) To withstand the actions of.
• v. (intransitive) To oppose.
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To be distasteful to.
• n. A protective coating or covering.