(a.) Forsaken; not having in possession (something necessary, or desirable); deficient; lacking; devoid; -- often followed by of.
(a.) Not possessing the necessaries of life; in a condition of want; needy; without possessions or resources; very poor.
(v. t.) To leave destitute; to forsake; to abandon.
(v. t.) To make destitute; to cause to be in want; to deprive; -- followed by of.
(v. t.) To disappoint.
Example Sentences:
(1) As one of the richest countries in the world it is beyond belief that the richest get a top rate tax cut while the poorest are being forced into deepening destitution," he said.
(2) Depictions of them by the likes of the Daily Mail as destitute Roma, desperate to leave shacks in the shanty towns of Sofia, are denounced as discriminatory and ill-informed.
(3) It is a chain of ragged destitution, on the doorstep – sometimes literally – of phenomenal wealth generation.
(4) For the most part, their journeys pass unseen, until they hit a barrier – the English Channel; the lines of police at Ventimiglia on the Italy-France border; the forests of Macedonia – that creates a bottleneck and leads to scenes of destitution and chaos.
(5) The government has just announced emergency aid for the destitute and the Greek Orthodox Church has revealed it is feeding 250,000 people a day.
(6) Housing First simply can’t tackle the problem – especially not in Skid Row, the downtown Los Angeles area synonymous with destitution.
(7) Four years since this crisis began, Syria’s people have been plunged into the dark: destitute, fearful, and grieving for the friends they have lost and the country they once knew,” said David Miliband, president and CEO of the International Rescue Committee.
(8) Until the early 2000s, the South had been presented to North Koreans in their official media as a destitute, near-starving colony of US imperialists.
(9) The need for a free medical sevice and rehabilitation of the disabled destitutes in Lagos is highlighted.
(10) The disease, destruction, and destitution created by the recent conflicts in the Persian Gulf have resulted in increased international travel to affected countries for relief and reconstruction.
(11) Meanwhile, thousands of Haitians displaced by the disaster continue to live in makeshift housing, squalor and destitution.
(12) No one wants to support a charity or business that puts sick, disabled and unemployed people to work without pay on threat of destitution, and that is why workfare schemes will ultimately collapse."
(13) On Wednesday they debate the social fund – an awkward lump in the social security system, small potatoes, yet a last lifeline for the utterly destitute.
(14) Many of these children are destitute without families or from very poor landless families in rural areas.
(15) The subsequent property crash leaves the couple – and the rest of the island, and indeed the whole state – bankrupt and near destitute.
(16) Photograph: AAP In her famous 1913 pamphlet, Round about a pound a week , Maud Pember Reeves wrote contemptuously about “the gospel of porridge” – the idea, still common among the wealthy, that the destitute wouldn’t be so wretched if only they invested their money wisely.
(17) The RNIB's threat of legal action comes as Archbishop Nichols, the most senior Catholic in England and Wales, said the Coalition's benefits system was becoming increasingly "punitive" and was leaving people destitute .
(18) I guess time will tell.” Gopman spent the first half of 2015 expressing regret for dissing the destitute and attempting to tackle the problem.
(19) A middle-class made destitute in 2007-08 has been restored, Coltart added.
(20) In addition, recognised refugees have only a matter of days to move out of reception centres once their applications are successful, at which time they stop receiving monthly stipends and risk becoming destitute.
Hospice
Definition:
(n.) A convent or monastery which is also a place of refuge or entertainment for travelers on some difficult road or pass, as in the Alps; as, the Hospice of the Great St. Bernard.
Example Sentences:
(1) At present, fewer than 20% do so, with more than half of all deaths happening in hospital and the rest in hospices or care homes.
(2) A big majority, 60%, died in hospital; 20% in care homes, like my father; 6% in hospices, like my mother.
(3) This paper describes the results of a survey on the form and function of hospice bereavement services completed by NHO Provider Member hospices.
(4) Fifty-seven of the allegations took place in 14 hospitals and a hospice in the UK.
(5) Fraser discusses the results and implications of a survey conducted by the Department of Health and Human Services to determine the impact on hospices of the Medicare reimbursement program authorized by Congress in 1983.
(6) The authors present a conceptual framework for working with hospice families as clients.
(7) The ethical dimensions of availability and accessibility of hospice care to dying persons and their families are discussed.
(8) We suggest a framework by which AIDS patients may be accommodated in existing hospice programs while maintaining hospice program integrity.
(9) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(10) Purdy, who had been in the city’s Marie Curie hospice for a year and had been refusing food, died on 23 December.
(11) For charitable services to Hope House Children's Hospice, Wrexham.
(12) Hume, whose grantmaking credentials include leading a £500m cancer and palliative care grant programme for the Big Lottery Fund, refutes the notion that hospices will lose out.
(13) This study compared the ability of hospice and conventional care settings to meet the basic emotional needs of families during a member's dying and death from cancer.
(14) The theories and techniques of crisis intervention are discussed as they apply to teaching patients and families in the home hospice setting.
(15) From November 1982 to September 1987, 69 patients in the Seirei Hospice have been treated with such radiotherapy, and symptomatic relief was obtained in 64% of these patients.
(16) The clinical problems encountered over four years are described to illustrate the factors that affect prescribing, which makes caring for a dying patient at home different from that in hospital or even in a hospice.
(17) Hospice day care is a cost-effective way to expand the range of services available to hospice patients and families.
(18) Because clients' grief experiences differ, as well as their personalities, coping styles, and circumstances, a hospice should be prepared to offer a variety of bereavement services.
(19) The hospice approach embodies the principles of pharmacological therapy and social, spiritual, and emotional support for the patient and family.
(20) This was done in order to show in detail the effects of hospice home care on the quality of life of terminally ill patients and to provide rationale for setting up more hospice home care programs in korea.