Penury - English meaning

noun

The state of being bankrupt.

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Many companies were facing bankruptcy

noun

The inability to pay your debts, or a particular example of this, involving the sale of your property or some other arrangement to pay as much as possible of the money you owe

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[ u ] if sales don’t improve, we’ll have to declare bankruptcy within a year.

noun

A situation in which a business or a person becomes unable to pay their debts, and is officially bankrupt

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Be on the brink/verge of bankruptcy the country's largest automaker is rumored to be on the brink o…

noun

The damaging lack of material benefits considered to be basic necessities in a society.

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Low wages mean that 3.75 million people suffer serious deprivation

noun

An absence or too little of something important

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[ c ] there were food shortages and other deprivations during the war.

noun

A situation in which you do not have things or conditions that are usually considered necessary for a pleasant life

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They used sleep deprivation as a form of torture., there is awful deprivation in the shanty towns.,…

noun

Poverty so extreme that one lacks the means to provide for oneself.

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The family faced eviction and destitution

noun

The state of being without money, food, a home, or possessions

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Destitution has become a major problem in the capital., they both died in poverty and destitution.

noun

Severe suffering or privation.

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Intolerable levels of hardship

noun

A condition of life that causes difficulty or suffering

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[ u ] the 1930s were a time of high unemployment and economic hardship.

noun

A condition that causes difficulty or suffering, for example, being without a job or enough money

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Financial/economic hardship the price of cooking gas increased five-fold, worsening the economic ha…

noun

The process of becoming poor; loss of wealth.

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Fifteen years of political instability resulted in widespread impoverishment and famine

noun

The condition of being or becoming very poor, or the act of making someone very poor

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The drought reduced many farmers to impoverishment., progress has meant continued impoverishment an…

noun

A state of extreme poverty; destitution.

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He did valuable work towards the relief of indigence

noun

The state of being insolvent.

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The club was facing insolvency

verb

Require (something) because it is essential or very important rather than just desirable.

Usage examples:

I need help now

noun

Circumstances in which something is necessary; necessity.

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The basic human need for food

noun

A state in which food and other essentials for well-being are lacking.

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Years of rationing and privation

noun

A lack of the basic things that are necessary for an acceptable standard of living

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Economic privation is pushing the poor towards crime., several villages suffered serious privations…

noun

The physical destruction or disintegration of something or the state of disintegrating or being destroyed.

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A large white house falling into gentle ruin

verb

Reduce (a building or place) to a state of decay, collapse, or disintegration.

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The castle was ruined when dynamite was used to demolish one of the corner towers

verb

To spoil or destroy something

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It would be a shame to ruin such a beautiful place., that guy isn’t going to ruin my life.

verb

Have a desire to possess or do (something); wish for.

Usage examples:

I want an apple

noun

A lack or deficiency of something.

Usage examples:

Victorian houses which are in want of repair

The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable