Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun beggar

1 sense of beggar

Sense 1
beggar, mendicant -- (a pauper who lives by begging)
       => pauper -- (a person who is very poor)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb beggar

2 senses of beggar

Sense 1
beggar -- (be beyond the resources of; "This beggars description!")
       => defy, resist, refuse -- (elude, especially in a baffling way; "This behavior defies explanation")

Sense 2
beggar, pauperize, pauperise -- (reduce to beggary)
       => impoverish -- (make poor)