poverty-stricken
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈpoverty-ˌstricken adjective POORextremely poor 极度贫穷的 poverty-stricken families 赤贫的家庭► see thesaurus at poor
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poverty-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.ˈpoverty-ˌstricken adjectiveChineseSyllable
poor extremely Corpus
poverty-stricken
ˈpoverty-ˌstricken
adjective
extremely poor:
poverty-stricken families
▪ poor having very little money and not many possessions – used about people or places: Many families were too poor to pay for education. | poor countries
▪hard up/broke (also skint British English) [not before noun] informal having very little money, especially for a short period of time. Skint is more informal than the other words: I’m a bit hard up at the moment | We were so broke we couldn’t afford to go out to the cinema.
▪developing [only before noun] a developing country is poor and has very little industry: The disease is found mainly in developing countries. | the developing world
▪deprived [usually before noun] much poorer than other people in a country, and not having the things that are necessary for a comfortable or happy life – used about people and areas: The charity works with deprived children in the inner city. | one of the most deprived areas of London
▪disadvantaged especially written used about groups of people in society who have much less chance of being successful because they are poor: An increase in the minimum wage would help the most disadvantaged Americans.
▪needy having very little money, and so needing help – used about groups of people: More help should be given to needy families. | We offer scholarships for needy students.
▪destitute especially written having no money or possessions and nowhere to live – used when someone is in a very bad situation: Her family was left destitute after her father died. | destitute refugees
▪impoverished formal impoverished people and places are very poor: out-of-work miners and their impoverished families | The children come from impoverished neighbourhoods. | one of the world’s most impoverished countries
▪poverty-stricken written extremely poor: poverty-stricken areas | They were left poverty-stricken.
▪penniless especially literary having no money: She died penniless. | a penniless student
ˈpoverty-ˌstricken
adjectiveextremely poor:
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