a person who begs alms or lives by begging.

a penniless person.

a wretched fellow; rogue

the surly beggar who collects the rents.

a child or youngster (usually prec. by little )

a sudden urge to hug the little beggar.

to reduce to utter poverty; impoverish

The family had been beggared by the war.

to cause one's resources of or ability for (description, comparison, etc.) to seem poor or inadequate

The costume beggars description.

noun

asker , borrower , bum , deadbeat , hobo , mendicant , panhandler , rustler , scrounger , supplicant , supplicator , tramp , vagabond , alms person , bankrupt , dependent , down-and-out * , guttersnipe , indigent , pauper , poor person , poverty-stricken person , street person * , suppliant , vagrant , ward of state , almsman , almswoman , cadger , down-and-out , down-and-outer , have-not , prayer , suitor , bezonian , bidder , canter , eleemosynary , fakir , freeloader , impoverish , leech , moocher , mumper , pleader , prog , rogue , ruin , schnorrer , schnorrer (jewish) , sponger , starveling , wretch