бе́дствовать

verb, imperfective

Very rarely used word (top 30,000)

Examples

Она не бе́дствует.She's not penniless.

Она бе́дствует.She is badly off.

К концу́ свое́й жи́зни Хокусай бе́дствовал, жил один с до́черью и рабо́тал, пока не у́мер.At the end of his life, Hokusai lived in misery, alone with his daughter, and worked until his death.

Imperative
ты	бе́дствуй
вы	бе́дствуйте

Active present	бе́дствующий	distressed, needy, destitute, suffering, poverty-stricken
Active past	бе́дствовавший	impoverished, destitute, who was in distress, who suffered hardship
Passive present
Passive past
Gerund present	бе́дствуя	while doing (present)
Gerund past	бедствовавши	while doing (past)