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. | |
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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. | |
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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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