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What is "famine" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does famine mean in English? Meaning of famine definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "famine" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "famine": an acute insufficiency

Noun

  • Meaning: an acute insufficiency
  • Synonyms: dearth famine shortage
  • Hypernyms: deficiency lack want

    • Hyphenation: fam‧ine

    Meaning of "famine": a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

    Noun

  • Meaning: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
  • Synonyms: famine
  • Hyponyms: the great calamity the great hunger the great starvation the irish famine
  • Hypernyms: calamity cataclysm catastrophe disaster tragedy

    • Hyphenation: fam‧ine

    Synonyms:

    drought, starvation, poverty, scarcity, misery, paucity, destitution, want, dearth,

    Antonyms:

    abundance, plenty, feast, supply, stores,

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    famine in English: famine
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