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famine 音标拼音: [f'æmən] n. 饥荒,缺乏,饥馑 饥荒,缺乏,饥馑 famine n 1: an acute insufficiency [ synonym: { dearth}, { famine}, { shortage}] 2: a severe shortage of food ( as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and deathFamine \ Fam" ine\, n. [ F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr. ????? want, need, Skr. h[= a] ni loss, lack, h[= a] to leave.] General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. " Worn with famine." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] There was a famine in the land. -- Gen. xxvi. 1. [ 1913 Webster] { Famine fever} ( Med.), typhus fever. [ 1913 Webster] 42 Moby Thesaurus words for " famine": absence, aridity, barrenness, beggary, birth control, contraception, dearth, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, family planning, imperfection, impotence, impoverishment, incompleteness, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, lack, need, omission, paucity, planned parenthood, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, starvation, sterileness, sterility, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, want, wantage, withered loins
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