English-Spanish translations for destitution

• indigencia
  Los cubanos normales también viven en la indigencia y sufren enfermedades. Normal Cubans, too, live in destitution and suffer illness.
  Allí, todas las iniciativas continúan fracasando, se generaliza la indigencia, las enfermedades son mortales y el agua es un bien escaso. Down there, everything continues to fall apart, destitution spreads, disease kills and water is short.
  Los niños de países pobres viven en la indigencia y los echan a las calles, los explotan sexualmente o los asesinan para conseguir órganos trasplantables. Children in poor countries live in destitution and are turned out onto the streets, sexually exploited or murdered for transplantable organs.

Definition of destitution

• The action of deserting or abandoning
• The condition of lacking something
• An extreme state of poverty, in which a person is almost completely lacking in resources or means of support

Related words

• destiny
• destination
• destine
• destined
• predestination
• predestine
• predestinate
• destinies
• predestinated