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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
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Origin of poverty-stricken1

First recorded in 1795–1805
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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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In the production, Fairman’s story depicts her compassion, a quality which took root in the poverty-stricken city where she grew up and continues to this day through her volunteer work in Los Angeles.

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I think if you take a camera into any rural area or area that's poverty-stricken, it's not gonna look pretty, but somehow we were special.

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