| famine | | |
| n. (state) | 1. dearth, famine, shortage | an acute insufficiency. |
| ~ deficiency, lack, want | the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable.; "there is a serious lack of insight into the problem"; "water is the critical deficiency in desert regions"; "for want of a nail the shoe was lost" |
| n. (event) | 2. famine | a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. |
| ~ calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, cataclysm, disaster | an event resulting in great loss and misfortune.; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" |
| ~ the great calamity, the great hunger, the great starvation, 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). |
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