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poverty-stricken Definition

poverty-stricken (-strik′ən)

adjective

  1. stricken with poverty; very poor
  2. characteristic of, or giving the appearance of, poverty

poverty-stricken Synonyms

poverty-stricken

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poverty-stricken Usage Examples

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.

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