About The Word Dearth
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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.
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