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Filled with or plagued by poverty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: place, usually
Examples
- 1963, John F. Kennedy, Speech given at the University of San José, Costa Rica, 20 March, 1963, in Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, Washington: United States Government Printing Office, 1964, p. 272, One program after another brought an end to tenant farming in the United States, electrified nearly every farm in our country, transformed the poverty ridden Tennessee Valley into one of the richest agricultural and industrial areas in the United States.
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Suffering from poverty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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During which one suffers or has suffered from poverty.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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.
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