poverty-stricken

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoverty-strickenˈpoverty-ˌstricken adjective POORextremely poor poverty-stricken families► see thesaurus at poorExamples from the Corpuspoverty-stricken• At the moment, many poverty-stricken communities are experiencing a shortage of teachers.• The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises.• His photographs show vividly the lives of poverty-stricken families in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.• Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.• A man was walking down a street, and the street was narrow, mean, full of poverty-stricken houses.• You drank because you were poverty-stricken, Mamma, both in pocket and in spirit.• poverty-stricken neighborhoods• His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.• I wandered through a poverty-stricken village in the countryside, flies swarming over me under a baking sun.• Everything conspires, therefore, to isolate and ignore that poverty-stricken world and leave it to its own devices.

单词	poverty-stricken
释义	poverty-stricken From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoverty-strickenˈpoverty-ˌstricken adjective POORextremely poor poverty-stricken families► see thesaurus at poorExamples from the Corpuspoverty-stricken• At the moment, many poverty-stricken communities are experiencing a shortage of teachers.• The poverty-stricken could then take over the deserted metropolises.• His photographs show vividly the lives of poverty-stricken families in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.• Governments turn a blind eye to the thousands of poverty-stricken families that migrate to the forest every year.• A man was walking down a street, and the street was narrow, mean, full of poverty-stricken houses.• You drank because you were poverty-stricken, Mamma, both in pocket and in spirit.• poverty-stricken neighborhoods• His security police are no strangers to intimidation when it comes to striking fear into Ciskei's 850,000 poverty-stricken people.• I wandered through a poverty-stricken village in the countryside, flies swarming over me under a baking sun.• Everything conspires, therefore, to isolate and ignore that poverty-stricken world and leave it to its own devices.
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