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English Dictionary: destitute	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
destitute adj poor enough to need help from others [syn: destitute, impoverished, indigent, necessitous, needy, poverty-stricken] completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning" Synonym(s): barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Destitute \Des"titute\, v. t. 1. To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon. [Obs.] To forsake or destitute* a plantation. --Bacon. 2. To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of. [Obs.] Destituted of all honor and livings. --Holinshed. 3. To disappoint. [Obs.] When his expectation is destituted. --Fotherby.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Destitute \Des"titute\, a. [L. destitutus, p. p. of destituere to set away, leave alone, forsake; de + statuere to set. See {Statute}.] 1. Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of. In thee is my trust; leave not my soul destitute. --Ps. cxli. 8. Totally destitute* of all shadow of influence. --Burke. 2. Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor. They wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins; being destitute, afflicted, tormented. --Heb. xi. 37.