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Dearth Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Dearth? [n] an insufficient quantity or number [n] a severe shortage (especially a shortage of food) Synonyms \| Synonyms for Dearth: famine \| paucity \| shortage Related Terms \| Find terms related to Dearth: absence \| aridity \| barrenness \| birth control \| contraception \| default \| defect \| deficiency \| dry womb \| dryness \| exiguity \| exiguousness \| family planning \| famine \| impotence \| inadequacy \| ineffectualness \| infecundity \| infertility \| infrequency \| insufficiency \| lack \| meagerness \| miss \| need \| paucity \| planned parenthood \| poverty \| privation \| rareness \| rarity \| scant sufficiency \| scantiness \| scantness \| scarceness \| scarcity \| shortage \| sparseness \| sparsity \| sterileness \| sterility \| uncommonness \| unfertileness \| unfruitfulness \| unproductiveness \| want \| withered loins See Also \| deficiency \| lack \| scarceness \| scarcity \| want Dearth In Webster's Dictionary \Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See {Dear}.] Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine. There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts vii. 11. He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak. Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination. --Dryden.

Dearth Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Dearth?

[n] an insufficient quantity or number
[n] a severe shortage (especially a shortage of food)

Synonyms | Synonyms for Dearth: famine | paucity | shortage

Dearth In Webster's Dictionary

\Dearth\, n. [OE. derthe, fr. dere. See {Dear}.]
Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack
of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

      There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt. --Acts
                                               vii. 11.

      He with her press'd, she faint with dearth. --Shak.

      Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.
                                               --Dryden.

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