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poverty-stricken

[ pov-er-tee-strik-uhn ]

adjective

  1. suffering from poverty; extremely poor:

    poverty-stricken refugees.



poverty-stricken

adjective

  1. suffering from extreme poverty
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of poverty-stricken1

First recorded in 1795–1805
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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.

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Elsewhere, Israel offered aid packages — a boon for the poverty-stricken population but one that many rejected.

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In the latest violent incident, five men were shot dead in a shop in the poverty-stricken Laventille area on Sunday.

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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.

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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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