Famine: alternatives and connections

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individua…

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An extensive overflow or sweeping flood of water; a deluge.

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An event producing a subversion of the order or system of things; a final event, usually of a calamitous or disastrous nature; hence, sudden calamity…

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The state of being deficient; inadequacy; want; failure; imperfection; shortcoming; defect.

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An unpropitious or baleful aspect of a planet or star; malevolent influence of a heavenly body; hence, an ill portent.

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Blame; cause of blame; fault; crime; offense.

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A dramatic poem, composed in elevated style, representing a signal action performed by some person or persons, and having a fatal issue; that species…

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The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

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Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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Amount or extent of deficiency, as determined by some requirement or standard; as, a shortage in money accounts.

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