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famine

fam·ine

famine

 
 
pronunciation:
fae mihn
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part of speech: noun
definition: When there is a famine, there is not enough food to eat for most of the people living in an area. Famine is often caused by lack of rain, which causes crops to fail.
The famine made it very difficult for the farmers to get enough food for the winter.
synonyms:
starvation
similar words:
drought, hunger
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