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famine

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famine
noun
1 the nation is threatened by famine:
scarcity of food, food shortages;
deprivation, want.
▷antonyms plenty.
2 the cotton famine of the 1860s:
shortage, scarcity, lack, dearth, want, deficiency, insufficiency, shortfall, undersupply, scantiness, rareness, paucity, poverty, drought, unavailability;
rare exiguity, exiguousness.