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n. A drastic, wide-reaching food shortage.

n. A drastic shortage; a dearth.

n. Severe hunger; starvation.

n. Archaic Extreme appetite.

n. extreme shortage of food in a region

n. a period of extreme shortage of food in a region

n. During times of famine

n. General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.

n. Scarcity or destitution of food; a general want of provision or supply; extreme dearth, threatening or resulting in starvation: often used by extension with reference to the want or scarcity of material things other than food, and, figuratively, of immaterial things.

n. Synonyms Dearth, etc. See scarcity.

n. an acute insufficiency

n. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

"We have seen the effects of cotton famine, and I am sure matters would have come to a sad pass if we were to witness a _convict famine_, and to be compelled to open our workhouse gates to the starving families of our convict guardians."

deficiency    lack    want   

famine fever    famine prices    cotton famine   

dearth    destitution   

Alabaman    Amman    Ammon    Salmon    gammon    reexamine    salmon   

starvation    sickness    calamity    hunger    pestilence    poverty    disaster    destitution    privation    misery