poverty-stricken
adjective/ˈpɒvəti strɪkən/
/ˈpɑːvərti strɪkən/
- extremely poor; with very little money
- poverty-stricken families/countries
- He came from a poverty-stricken family in turn-of-the-century Brooklyn.
- The organization works in many war-torn and poverty-stricken countries
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