Preposition: of

• wood: Like those of the Wick river, its banks are totally destitute of wood.

• tree: Charnwood Forest, in the NW. , is now nearly destitute of trees.

Modifying Another Word

• utterly: If the marquis became bankrupt the convent would be utterly destitute.

• wholly: An iron-bound door led into an adjoining cell, or vault, wholly destitute of windows, or any means of admitting light.

• totally: Like those of the Wick river, its banks are totally destitute of wood.

• entirely: The country between the mountain and this Lake, is completely barren, and entirely destitute of game.

• nearly: Charnwood Forest, in the NW. , is now nearly destitute of trees.

• almost: In The Railroad Children, the father is in prison and the family is almost destitute.

Adjective complement with noun phrase

• leave: Consumerism often creates the problem of a false sense of happiness, leaving the consumer destitute of the desire to confront a higher calling.

• make: This Act is making many asylum seekers literally destitute.

Modifies a noun

• seeker: We hear from some of the west's most destitute asylum seekers.

• widow: Joseph died when John was 3 leaving a destitute widow and six children.

• boy: He regularly went out at night into the slum district to find destitute boys to help them.

• child: The smallest contribution for the benefit of these destitute children may be forwarded to Thos.

• woman: Many of the most destitute women in our study fell into one or both of these categories.

• family: The workhouse was a last resort for destitute families.

Used with adjective complement

• leave: When she was left destitute by the death of her husband she went on the stage first in London then touring the country.

• become: Where such person, being casually within such parish, shall become destitute.

• make: The report includes the first survey of people made destitute by Section 55.

• end: At one stage he ended up destitute in a homeless men's hostel.