penury
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pen·u·ry
(pĕn′yə-rē)n.
Extreme want or poverty; destitution.
[Middle English penurie, from Latin pēnūria, want.]
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penury
(ˈpɛnjʊrɪ)n
1. extreme poverty
2. extreme scarcity
[C15: from Latin pēnūria dearth, of obscure origin]
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pen•u•ry
(ˈpɛn yə ri)n.
1. extreme poverty; destitution.
2. scarcity or lack; insufficiency.
[1400–50; late Middle English < Latin pēnūria; akin to Greek peîna hunger, penía poverty]
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penury
extreme poverty or destitution. — penurious, adj.
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Noun | 1. | penury - a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" impoverishment, poorness, poverty - the state of having little or no money and few or no material possessions mendicancy, mendicity, beggary - the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" |
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penury
noun poverty, want, need, privation, destitution, straitened circumstances, beggary, indigence, pauperism
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penury
nounThe condition of being extremely poor:
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penury
[ˈpenjʊrɪ] N → miseria f, penuria fto live in penury → vivir en la penuria or miseria
to be reduced to penury → quedarse en la miseria
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