poverty-stricken

Modifies a noun

• country: Our already poverty-stricken country will now have to recover from a double shock.
• family: World Vision delivers your gift, like three chickens for £ 15, to a poverty-stricken family in the developing world.
• area: Two University of Ulster student nurses have raised £ 2,500 to aid hospital patients in a poverty-stricken area of Ghana.
• people: But not all poverty-stricken people are depressed and wealth is certainly no protection against depression.
• life: For many children, Salim's show is sometimes the only escape from a grim, poverty-stricken life in the crime-infested ghettos of Calcutta.
• peasant: Hundreds of thousands of poverty-stricken peasants were brought back from the dead.

Modifying Another Word

• already: Our already poverty-stricken country will now have to recover from a double shock.