loss of fortune
noun
Roget 804:
poverty,
indigence,
penury,
pauperism,
destitution,
want;
need,
neediness;
lack,
necessity,
privation,
distress,
difficulties,
wolf at the door.
bad circumstances,
poor circumstances,
need circumstances,
embarrassed circumstances,
reduced circumstances,
straightened circumstances;
slender means,
narrow means;
straits;
hand to mouth existence,
res angusta domi [Lat.],
low water,
impecuniosity.
beggary;
mendicancy,
mendicity†;
broken fortune,
loss of fortune;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
empty pocket,
empty purse;
light purse;
beggarly account of empty boxes.
[poor people]
poor man,
pauper,
mendicant,
mumper†,
beggar,
starveling;
pauvre diable [Fr.];
fakir†,
schnorrer†;
homeless person.
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