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Definition of begnaw in English English dictionary
- The quality or state of being beggarly; meanness
- To reduce to beggary; to impoverish; as, he had beggared himself
- One who is dependent upon others for support; a contemptuous or sarcastic use
- The condition of being a beggar; also, the class of beggars
- To cause to seem very poor and inadequate
- Beggary
- One who assumes in argument what he does not prove
- One who makes it his business to ask alms
- In the condition of, or like, a beggar; suitable for a beggar; extremely indigent; poverty-stricken; mean
- To gnaw; to eat away; to corrode