Famine

Noun

 * 1)  extreme shortage of food in a region
 * 2) * 1971, Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation
 * Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed.
 * 1)  a period of extreme shortage of food in a region
 * 2) * 1986, United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa
 * The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....
 * 1) During times of famine

Adjectives for Famine
impending; desperate; pining; consuming; fearful; feverish.

Verbs for Famine
bring—; die in—; expose to—; incur—; keep—at bay; lament—; perish in—; recover from—; suffer—; threaten with—; —attacks; —besieges; —blights; —clings; —devastates; —distresses; —ensues; —frustrates; —punishes; —prevails; —ravages, —reduces; —subdues.

Thesaurus
absence, aridity, barrenness, beggary, birth control, contraception, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, family planning, imperfection, impotence, impoverishment, incompleteness, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, lack, need, omission, paucity, planned parenthood, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, sterileness, sterility, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, want, wantage, withered loins

Etymology
From famine:.

Translations

 * Arabic: نقص الغذاء
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 * German:
 * Greek: (limós),  (peína)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: hungursneyð
 * Ido: famino


 * Irish:
 * Japanese: 飢饉(ききん, kikin)
 * Kurdish:
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 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic: gort
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * West Frisian: hongersneed, breakrapte


 * Polish: okres głodu

Etymology
From fames:.

Etymology
From fames:.

Noun

 * 1) famine

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