Practice FrenchC1noun
le dénuement
destitution, utter poverty
« Ces familles vivent dans un dénuement que rien ne justifie. »
“These families live in a destitution that nothing justifies.”
In other languages
- Spanish indigencia, desamparo
- Portuguese indigência, privação
- German Mittellosigkeit, bittere Armut
- Italian indigenza, privazione
- Arabic العوز، الفاقة
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