The act of reducing someone to extreme poverty or a state of complete deprivation.
Present participle of 'destitute' used as a verb (a rare usage), combining the past participle with '-ing' to form a gerund or continuous action.
'Destituting' is an almost unused word form—English speakers prefer the noun 'impoverishment' or phrase 'reducing to poverty'—but seeing it reminds us that not every grammatically possible word gets adopted by a language.
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