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to destitution
noun
The action of deserting or abandoning.
Exact(37)
They were near to destitution.
Moreover, sanctions and rapacious rule have reduced Iraqis to destitution.
In some cases people are being driven to destitution.
Prostitution is rarer when it is not the only alternative to destitution.
They said that unrepresented people sometimes blundered into errors that could lead to destitution and homelessness.
Desperation to become wildly affluent major leaguers leads most these youngsters to destitution.
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A serious accident or illness such as cancer creates an existential crisis while forcing people suffering from illness and their families to scramble to avoid destitution.
Researchers called on the government to monitor destitution levels annually to better understand how people in poverty slipped into extreme hardship and to examine what could be done to close the holes in the welfare safety net.
They have both travelled the same journey, from Poland to America, from brutalism to survival, from destitution to wealth.
The former gave victory to the "No"; the latter, less well prepared than the Scottish referendum, led to the destitution of the Catalan government and to new regional elections to be held on 21 December 2017.
It cannot be in the long-term interests of any of the parties to these agreements to reduce the entire Icelandic nation to utter destitution".
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