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penury 音標拼音: [p'ɛnjʊri] n. 貧困,貧窮 貧困,貧窮 penury n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; " their indigence appalled him"; " a general state of need exists among the homeless" [ synonym: { indigence}, { need}, { penury}, { pauperism}, { pauperization}] Penury \ Pen" u* ry\, n. [ L. penuria; cf. Gr. ? hunger, ? poverty, need, ? one who works for his daily bread, a poor man, ? to work for one' s daily bread, to be poor: cf. F. p[' e] nurie.] 1. Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution. " A penury of military forces." -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster] They were exposed to hardship and penury. -- Sprat. [ 1913 Webster] It arises in neither from penury of thought. -- Landor. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Penuriousness; miserliness. [ Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 27 Moby Thesaurus words for " penury": bare cupboard, bare subsistence, beggarliness, beggary, deprivation, destitution, empty purse, grinding poverty, gripe, hand- to- mouth existence, homelessness, impecuniousness, impoverishment, indigence, lack, mendicancy, moneylessness, necessitousness, necessity, need, neediness, pauperism, pauperization, pinch, poorness, privation, want
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