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famine

noun

1 famine

An acute insufficiency.

synonyms: dearth, shortage.

Roget 640: insufficiency; inadequacy, inadequateness; incompetence etc. (impotence) 158; deficiency etc. (incompleteness) 53; imperfection etc. 651; ... show more

2 famine

A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.

Dutch: hongersnood
Polish: głód


Moby thesaurus: absence, aridity, barrenness, beggary, birth control, contraception, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, family planning, imperfection, impotence, impoverishment ... show more.

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