Synonym: absence, deficiency, lack, need, shortage, starvation, want. Antonym: plenty. Similar words: examine, family, familiar, unfamiliar, be familiar with, vitamin, laminated, examining. Meaning: ['fæmɪn] 
n. 1. an acute insufficiency 2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death.
n. 1. an acute insufficiency 2. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. 
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61 Most peasants were reduced to eating grass and leaves during the severe famine in 1934.
62 The response of the people to the famine appeal was immediate.
63 In spite of the scale of the famine, the relief workers struggled on with dauntless optimism and commitment.
64 The recent famine in these parts has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people.
65 People bought in stocks of tinned goods in anticipation of a famine year.
66 Civil war and famine sent the nation plunging into anarchy.
67 War, famine and oppression have forced people in the region to flee from their homes.
68 When famine strikes, it is often women and children who suffer the most.
69 The famine was a visitation of God for their sins.
70 These weeks of drought have once again raised the spectre of widespread famine.
71 It now is a matter of urgency that aid reaches the famine area.
72 He left in 1983, horrified by the devastation that warfare and famine had visited on his homeland.
73 He dedicated his life to freeing the world from famine and disease.
74 It is vital that food is made available to the famine areas.
75 The civil war is obstructing distribution of famine relief by aid agencies.
76 Reports conflicted on how much of the aid was reaching the famine victims.
77 The aid programme was misconducted,(sentencedict.com) resulting in large quantities of food failing to reach the famine victims.
78 The combined effects of the war and the drought resulted in famine.
79 If the drought continues there's going to be a famine.
80 Many of the Irish went over to America during the famine.
81 The failure of the harvest again produced famine and unpeopled farms and hamlets.
82 Our organization is just one of many charities that are providing famine relief in the region.
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83 You wouldn't believe the horrors they have suffered due to famine and disease.
84 The continuing civil war is frustrating the efforts of relief agencies to feed thousands of famine victims.
85 The government has pledged itself to send aid to the famine victims.
86 The famine turned the normal modulation of climate into disaster.
87 It has been predicted that the Earth will tilt on its axis , causing catastrophic famine and disease.
88 The famine is so bad, aid can only scratch the surface.
89 The United Nations has rushed medical aid and food to the famine zone.
90 It is certain that thousands more people will die in the famine.
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