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noun 
  1. A person who beg, begs.
    • 1983. Rosen, Stanley. Plato"s Sophist: The Drama of Original & Image. South Bend, Indiana, USA: St. Augustine"s Press. p. 62.
    • : Odysseus has returned to his home disguised as a .
      1. A person suffering from extreme poverty.
    • 1883, w:Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Louis Stevenson, w:Treasure Island, Treasure Island
    • : I'm to be a poor, crawling , sponging for rum, when I might be rolling in a coach!
Translations: 
  • German: Bettler
  • Spanish: mendigo
verb 
  1. To make a beggar of someone; impoverish.
  2. To exhaust the resources of.
Translations: 
    Etymology: From beg + -ar

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