famine
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4.8
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪn/
:
hambruna
- And in Mozambique, civil war combined with famine took more than one million lives.
- famine relief
- food shortages and famine
- severe famine
Blockades can even create famine within the Japanese islands.
- Blockades can even create famine within the Japanese islands.
- They were dying of famine and disease.
- I mean, there's a famine that's imminent right now in northern Gaza.
- You said, do you call the famine in Gaza an unfolding genocide?
- Does he also contribute to a famine in in the Middle East?
- Just to give you some context, the famine that we're talking about led to cannibalism.
- People were dying from hand to hand combat, plague and famine.
- Who is going to eat the food that's available in the famine, Right.
- Stalin's Haltomore, Hitler's Holocaust, Mao's great Chinese famine.
- It'd stay there for years, block much sunlight, and cause widespread crop failure and famines.
- They got through ice ages, droughts, famines, disease, everything.
- You'd had had your parents had lost them through the famine for for starvation.
Examples
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When he had spent everything, a severe famine took place throughout that country, and he began to be in need.
Academic text (2015) -
A disastrous famine from 1996 to 1999 killed between 600,000 and one million people.
Academic text (2008) -
Written records mention a break in the Yellow River around A.D. 11 that caused famine and mass migration.
Academic text (2011) -
Farmers lay dead in their fields, famine hit, and tribute stopped coming in.
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But before long, crippling food shortages and famine had laid the province low.
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And the great famine that follows casts a long and lasting shadow on Irish history.
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Crops withered and a great famine plagued the earth.
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Tsvetayeva's only daughter died of starvation in the great Moscow famine during the winter of 1919.
Fiction book (1997) -
Marsha, distressed and anxious, writes out a check for $50 to a famine relief organization.
Academic text (1991) -
In Yemen, new warnings today indicate that famine is engulfing the country.
Synonyms
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4.7
A very strong hunger that happens when someone has no food for a long time
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Idioms
Compounds
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6.1
A time in Ireland from 1845 to 1852 when a potato disease made many people starve and leave the country
How Severe
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4.8
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2.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word famine comes from the Latin word fames, which means 'hunger', and it is the same root as the common word famished. So famine describes a terrible, wide hunger when food runs out.