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nounan acute insufficiencytype of:
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nouna severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and deathtype of:
Definition that contains famine
- starving the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
- starvation the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
- the great starvation a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
- the irish famine a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
- the great calamity a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
- four horsemen (New Testament) the four evils that will come at the end of the world: conquest rides a white horse; war a red horse; famine a black horse; plague a pale horse
- the great hunger a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)