About The Word Famine
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Famine
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What's The Definition Of Famine?
[n] a severe shortage (especially a shortage of food)
Synonyms | Synonyms for Famine: dearth | shortage Related Terms | Find terms related to Famine: absence | aridity | barrenness | beggary | birth control | contraception | dearth | defectiveness | deficiency | deficit | deprivation | destitution | drought | dry womb | dryness | exiguity | family planning | imperfection | impotence | impoverishment | incompleteness | ineffectualness | infecundity | infertility | lack | need | omission | paucity | planned parenthood | scarcity | shortage | shortcoming | shortfall | starvation | sterileness | sterility | unfertileness | unfruitfulness | unproductiveness | want | wantage | withered loins See Also | deficiency | lack | want Famine In Webster's Dictionary \Fam"ine\, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr.
????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.]
General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions;
destitution. ``Worn with famine.'' --Milton.
There was a famine in the land. --Gen. xxvi.
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{Famine fever} (Med.), typhus fever.
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