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Definitions of famine
  1. noun
    an acute insufficiency

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  2. noun
    a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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)
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