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poverty-ridden

adj

Etymology

From poverty + ridden.

  1. derived from *Hreydʰ-✻ — “to ride”
  2. derived from *rīdaną✻ — “to ride”
  3. inherited from *rīdan✻
  4. inherited from rīdan
  5. inherited from riden
  6. suffixed as ridden — “ride + en”
  7. compounded as poverty-ridden — “poverty + ridden”

Definitions

  1. Filled with or plagued by poverty.

    • 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. 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!
    • I was a poverty-ridden student striving for life in a system which makes the very existence of a scholar precarious.

  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.
    • The White House would be the culmination of a quest for power that contrasts with the powerlessness of his poverty-ridden early years and the helplessness that followed the war wound.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA