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poverty-stricken
[ pov-er-tee-strik-uhn ]
adjective
- suffering from poverty; extremely poor:
poverty-stricken refugees.
poverty-stricken
adjective
- suffering from extreme poverty
Word History and Origins
Origin of poverty-stricken1
Example Sentences
This explosive, eye-opening work came from Ivy League professor Desmond moving to a trailer park and rooming house in a poverty-stricken part of Milwaukee.
Elsewhere, Israel offered aid packages — a boon for the poverty-stricken population but one that many rejected.
In the latest violent incident, five men were shot dead in a shop in the poverty-stricken Laventille area on Sunday.
The decision means there will be more preventable deaths in the 17 poverty-stricken counties along Interstate 95 that constitute the Corridor of Shame, Brown said.
He was calling from a jail in Jehanabad, a poverty-stricken district and, at the time, a stronghold of left-wing extremism.
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