Translation
misery, destitution
Examples
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They lived in great destitution.
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The war brought misery to the people.
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He could not forget the misery of his childhood.
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Destitution and hunger ruled in the town.
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She helped the people in destitution.
leans harder towards material destitution than English "misery" does. A person in has no bread and no roof; a person who is simply wretched about something is or . Use the wrong one and you sound as though you are describing a famine when you meant a bad Tuesday. The adjective mizera behaves the same way and can also mean paltry, as in a mizera . o names the destitute person, and turns up constantly in nineteenth century Esperanto translations.
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