| NOUN | state | famine, dearth, shortage | an acute insufficiency |
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| event | famine | a severe shortage / shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death |
| Sounds | fae'mahn | |
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| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | An acute insufficiency. | |
|---|---|---|
| Synonyms | dearth, shortage | |
| Broader | lack, deficiency, want | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable |
| Spanish | escasez, hambre, hambruna, penuria | |
| Catalan | fam, fretura, penúria | |
| Meaning | A severe shortage / shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity | A famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight |
| Broader | calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm | An event resulting in great loss and misfortune |
| Spanish | hambre, hambruna | |
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