Poverty-ridden

adj

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Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Filled with or plagued by poverty. place, usually

    "Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit."

  2. 2
    Suffering from poverty.

    "[…] a young girl is sent to prison and forcibly fed with a tube through the nose for telling poverty-ridden slum-women how to keep from becoming pregnant!"

  3. 3
    During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.

    "1915, Cecily Sidgwick (as “Mrs. Alfred Sidgwick”), Mr. Broom and His Brother, London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 7, p. 33, Friends soon tell each other their troubles, and she found that Carry’s haunting fear was of a poverty-ridden old age."

Synonyms

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bankruptbrokebrokenclose to the boneemptyhandedhard up

Example

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"Fresh from the poverty-ridden hillsides of Connaught, these rich grazing-lands, comfortable houses, magnificent demesnes and castles, are unspeakably grateful to the eye and healing to the spirit."

Etymology

From poverty + ridden.

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