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Meanings of poverty-stricken in English
Poor enough to need help from others.
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Examples for "destitute"
Examples for "destitute"
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The farms have brought jobs and some prosperity to a once-destitute region.
2
Moonshine is our main source of income, we'd be destitute without it.
3
The new people are mostly destitute, hungry and with nowhere to stay.
4
After this, all his support was stopped and he was left destitute.
5
Once into the Eastern Empire it left whole cities destitute or destroyed.
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Many impoverished Zimbabweans hope a unity government would start an economic recovery.
2
Or maybe an impoverished African nation with a poorly developed health service?
3
However, most campaigns to curb population growth are targeted toward impoverished nations.
4
Only Seoul, he said, could help save the impoverished state from ruin.
5
R. Lamb considerably impoverished himself in enclosing the ground; and the Rev.
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But during the coalition government, services were reduced to the most needy.
2
Every year, he withdraws the pension and donates it to the needy.
3
She had studied intimately the needy and the rich and the middling.
4
Some is bagged up and offered to needy families to take home.
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In reality they are psychologically needy and damaged examples of human life.
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Conclusions: Findings suggest remarkable need for services among communities of indigent women.
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Training indigent forces is exactly what we're organized and trained to do.
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These other amounts include R1 billion in debts charged on indigent properties.
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The latter two are healthcare programmes for the elderly and the indigent.
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Large firms do take cases pro bono on behalf of the indigent.
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Hucksters read our necessitous state and ran at heel shouting their wares.
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Let us go to him, and know if he is really necessitous.
3
And why is Latin more necessitous for a footman than a gentleman?
4
The lands forfeited by the followers of Mazdak were distributed to necessitous cultivators.
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His hand had always been open to the poor and necessitous.
Usage of poverty-stricken in English
1
Are some of the natural resources of this dilapidated and poverty-stricken country.
2
The air was rent with the cries of orphans and poverty-stricken widows.
3
She offered to pay her share, since they were both poverty-stricken teachers.
4
The whole of this poverty-stricken interior bore traces of having been overturned.
5
In spite of her poverty-stricken appearance, Mrs. Sowler was not absolutely destitute.
6
He filled his pipe as the poverty-stricken homestead passed out of sight.
7
A theory left to such support, must be poverty-stricken in argument indeed.
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I am a poverty-stricken girl, going out to governess at the Cape.
9
The rich forests shrink slowly into thin tracts of scrubby, poverty-stricken vegetation.
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You don't want to be a child of someone who is poverty-stricken.
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She must either be poverty-stricken or have an income provided for her.
12
Free meals or cent meals for poverty-stricken school children are not Socialism.
13
Everyone remembers abject, poverty-stricken and war-ravaged Vienna in his The Third Man.
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To-day's portion of my journalizing epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
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To-day's portion of my journalising epistle has been very dull and poverty-stricken.
16
What interest attracted him to this poverty-stricken house, he who was rich?