| famine | General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. "Worn with famine." "There was a famine in the land." (Gen. Xxvi. <medicine> 1) Famine fever, typhus fever. Origin: F. Famine, fr. L. Fames hunger; cf. Gr. Want, need, Skr. Hani loss, lack, ha to leave. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| famine dropsy | Oedema occurring with the hypoproteinaemia of low protein intake occurring as starvation of a large population group. (05 Mar 2000) |
| famine fever | An acute infection characterised by recurrent episodes of pyrexia alternating with asymptomatic intervals of apparent recovery. This condition has worldwide distribution and is caused by spirochetes of the genus borrelia. (12 Dec 1998) |
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dearth: an acute insufficiency a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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A famine is an phenomenon in which a large percentage of the population of a region or country are undernourished and death by starvation becomes increasingly common. Famine was so well known in the ancient world that Famine was one of the biblical Four horsemen of the Apocalypse. In spite of the much greater technological and economic resources of the modern world, famine still strikes many parts of the world, mostly in the developing nations. ...
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a severe shortage of food, often brought on by drought
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Drastic, wide-reaching, long-term shortages or lack of food caused by the regional failure of food production or good distribution systems. Starvation and disease can result.
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Starvation brought about usually by a lack of rain.
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