プログレッシブ和英中辞典(第4版)の解説
おちぶれる【落ちぶれる】
be reduced to poverty; come down in the world
落ちぶれた一家
a family in reduced circumstances/a family which has fallen on hard times(▼前者はやや古風な表現)
彼は人に金をせびるほどに落ちぶれた
He was reduced to the point of 「pleading with [begging] people for money.
あんな人に頭を下げなければならないなんて,私も落ちぶれたもんだ
I have fallen dreadfully low to have to kowtow to someone like him.