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Another word for poverty-stricken

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Adjective

  1. Having little or no money or wealth

    Idioms:
    See also:

    rich

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Another word for poverty-stricken

Modifier
  1. See also:

    wanting

    poor

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Sentence Examples

  • She couldn't see the poverty-stricken section of the city.

  • They are poverty-stricken, and easily fall victim to fever.

  • The houses are generally built of wood and wear a poverty-stricken aspect.

  • At the time of the Mutiny the district, which was poverty-stricken and over-taxed, joined the rebels.

  • corps about Gilgenberg had received the most poverty-stricken district in the whole region, and to secure some alleviation for the sufferings of his men he incautiously extended his cantonments till they came in contact with the Russian outposts.

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