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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91 It is conservatively estimated that not less than half a million people died in the famine.
92 Thousands of people died during the terrible famine of that year.
93 If there is a danger of famine, we should help.
94 Thousands of people emigrated during the Irish potato famine of 1845-46.
95 An emergency fund was set up in reaction to the famine.
96 The country is facing a famine of epic proportions.
97 Ethiopia was suffering widespread famine and disease.
98 The four-year drought has caused widespread famine across Afghanistan.
99 These diplomats have never seen a famine.
100 Crop failure and famine killed the settlers.
101 The countryside lay half-deserted and stricken by famine.
102 Also invoked against famine and plagues.
103 The economic crisis caused famine, epidemics, and peasant revolt.
104 Relief agencies are hoping to cope better with the famine than they did in 1990.
105 Even the famine area was made to pay one-half of the supplemental tax levied for famine relief.
106 Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine.
107 The potato famine, so many millions of people were affected by it and all the deaths that have occurred.
108 In 1922 they were the hub of the maelstrom that was the great famine of 1921-2.
109 This is a worthy goal, but it should have nothing to do with the famine.
110 The famine is worse than any disaster in living memory.
111 The little boy seemed to personify the poverty and famine of his country.
112 This led to a famine and a delay in the wheat harvest of 2 months.
113 The money is urgently required to combat the effects of famine in the country.
114 The drought and consequent famine struck most of the country.
115 In peacetime[sentencedict .com], the Hercules aircraft has been used for distributing food to famine areas.
116 Technologies that helped rescue developing countries from famine in the 1970s have reached the point of diminishing returns.
117 Since the seed for this year's crops has been eaten, the risk of a prolonged famine is increasing.
118 Treacy is pinning his hopes on Derry again falling victim to a goal famine of crisis proportions.
119 For the long-term causes of the Famine we have to delve deep behind the flat time-dimension of 1922.
120 To increase this tension further and aggravate the goods famine even more is impossible.
More similar words: examine, family, familiar, unfamiliar, be familiar with, vitamin, laminated, examining, examination, contaminate, contamination, mine, mineral, nominee, eminence, imminent, determine, prominent, undermine, determined, domineering, preeminently, eminent domain, famed, defame, famous, far-famed, defamatory, amid, amity.