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famine definition

fam·ine (fam′in)

noun

  1. an acute and general shortage of food, or a period of this
  2. any acute shortage
  3. Archaic starvation

Etymology: ME < OFr < VL *famina < L fames, hunger < IE base *dhē-, to wither away > daze

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