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to be reduced to poverty

to be in the direst want

I am poor, so what can I do?

a person who is destitute

grinding poverty

to be reduced to want

He grew up in poverty.

in a penurious manner

a state of extreme poverty

Poverty is only the ostensible reason.

be in bad [needy, poor, reduced, straitened] circumstances

He refused to contribute on the plea of poverty―under plea of poverty.

in straitened circumstances

The family is reduced to poverty―in reduced circumstances.

people who deserve sympathy

relieve distress among the poor

health care for the needy

poverty and success

Poverty is no shame in the case of a samurai―with a samurai.

giving money or food or clothing to a needy person

of poverty, the condition of being impending

a quality or condition of being shabby

the hardships of poverty

debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity