famine
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4.2
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪn/
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- In the wake of the famine, international aid was critical for restoring food supplies.
- feast or famine
We were all natives, made restless by the death of our children, routine famine and constant conflict.
- We were all natives, made restless by the death of our children, routine famine and constant conflict.
- Drought, famine, hole in the ozone is so boring.
- And now I want to dive into some of the stuff you've been talking about, a famine coming and setting the stage.
- Timothy Chalamet the So you can see why our bodies are preparing us for a famine that will now never come, right?
- Unlike effective altruists, long termists don't really care about famines or floods because those won't lead to extinction.
- And here's how I can show you one clear instance of the meaning crisis is it's a wisdom famine.
- I would look at the whole year in advance and think, you know, that it doesn't have to be the sort of feast and famine there is.
- They don't want to go through these feast or famine style cycles.
- And when the work, it was always like out here, it's always feast or famine.
- And they go out and they stumble around in tyranny and famine and self betrayal and and
Examples
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We have famine.
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Ethiopia has eight times Somalia's population, and its famine was somewhat limited geographically.
Academic text (1993) -
Feast or famine, that was the way of it then; that is the way of it now.
Fiction book (1994) -
For their sins, he suggested, the people of England had brought upon themselves a great spiritual famine.
Academic text (2018) -
People generally suffered higher mortality rates than at present due to intertribal violence, disease, and periodic famines during droughts.
Academic text (2018) -
The prolonged famine led to widespread hunger and suffering among the population.
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During the famine, many families struggled to find enough food to survive.
Synonyms
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2.7
Not having enough of something people need, like food or water
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4.5
Not having enough of something that is needed
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4.4
A situation where there is not enough of something people need
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8.5
A lack of things people need, like food or water
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7.2
A small amount of something that people need
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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
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word famine comes from the Latin word fames, meaning 'hunger', and it shares the root with the everyday word famished. That's why people also use famine to talk about a severe lack of something important, like a 'famine' of supplies or ideas.