Similar words: stricken, poverty, poverty line, trickery, city slicker, sicken, thicken, chicken. Meaning: adj. poor enough to need help from others.
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(31) Because of the demographic and social economic characteristics of poverty-stricken population, they are vulnerable by disease risk.
(32) But after almost a decade of high oil prices - until last summer - Russia has done little to invest in infrastructure, or to help its backward, poverty-stricken regions.
(33) A group of undergraduates at Oxford University has posed naked for a calendar to raise money for poverty-stricken countries, UK media reported.
(34) We will increase support for old revolutionary areas, ethnic minority areas, border areas and poverty-stricken areas.
(35) Yet as one who recognized that socialism cannot thrive in poverty-stricken conditions, he would have understood perfectly how the Russian revolution came to be lost.
(36) People are not in a position to exercise personal liberty and to be self-determining if they are poverty-stricken, or deprived of basic education, or do not live within a context of law and order.
(37) But large areas cannot be flooded: a delicate balance must be struck between the needs of the environment and the livelihoods of poverty-stricken local farmers.
More similar words: stricken, poverty, poverty line, trickery, city slicker, sicken, thicken, chicken, quicken, chicken out, chicken pox, play chicken, impoverish, rickets, cricket, rickety, impoverished, trick, impoverishment, tricky, trickle, trickling, do the trick, overt, strict, maverick, covert, straight ticket, over there, overtone.