"poverty-struck" meaning in English

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  "pos": "adj",
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          "ref": "1756, Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice. A Farce, in Two Acts, Dublin: […] W. Smith; J. Exshaw; R. James, page 25:",
          "text": "I warrant—Such Poverty-ſtruck Devils as you ſhan't ſtay in my Houſe—you ſhall go to Quod, I can tell you that—",
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          "ref": "1802, William Templeton, chapter XI, in The Strolling Player; or, Life and Adventures of William Templeton, volume I, London: […] B. McMillan, […] H.D. Symonds, page 265:",
          "text": "A more curious figure cannot be conceived than I made; for, my poverty-struck and half-starved appearance was so contrasted with my active pace and flowing spirits, that I bore more the stamp of a lunatic than any thing else.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1828 July 5, “St. Katharine's”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XCVIII, page 9:",
          "text": "[…] the poverty-struck appearance of these appendages is disgraceful to the structure, and even the excuse of utility is wanted to apologise for their excessive meanness.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1997 November 5, William Lashner, Veritas, Harper Paperbacks, page 42:",
          "text": "Why hadn't she told me? Why had she wanted me to think her only a poverty-struck little liar? Well, maybe she was a little liar, but a liar with money was something else again. And I did like that smile.",
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        "Poverty-stricken; very poor."
      ],
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          "poor",
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        "(now somewhat uncommon) Poverty-stricken; very poor."
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1756, Arthur Murphy, The Apprentice. A Farce, in Two Acts, Dublin: […] W. Smith; J. Exshaw; R. James, page 25:",
          "text": "I warrant—Such Poverty-ſtruck Devils as you ſhan't ſtay in my Houſe—you ſhall go to Quod, I can tell you that—",
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        },
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          "ref": "1802, William Templeton, chapter XI, in The Strolling Player; or, Life and Adventures of William Templeton, volume I, London: […] B. McMillan, […] H.D. Symonds, page 265:",
          "text": "A more curious figure cannot be conceived than I made; for, my poverty-struck and half-starved appearance was so contrasted with my active pace and flowing spirits, that I bore more the stamp of a lunatic than any thing else.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1828 July 5, “St. Katharine's”, in The Gentleman's Magazine, volume XCVIII, page 9:",
          "text": "[…] the poverty-struck appearance of these appendages is disgraceful to the structure, and even the excuse of utility is wanted to apologise for their excessive meanness.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
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          "ref": "1997 November 5, William Lashner, Veritas, Harper Paperbacks, page 42:",
          "text": "Why hadn't she told me? Why had she wanted me to think her only a poverty-struck little liar? Well, maybe she was a little liar, but a liar with money was something else again. And I did like that smile.",
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        "Poverty-stricken; very poor."
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        "(now somewhat uncommon) Poverty-stricken; very poor."
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