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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151 However, when Karamoja experienced severe famine in 1979 and 1980, aid organizations streamed in to provide relief food.
152 But recurrent harvest failures, the most notorious of which led to devastating famine in 1891, imposed severe hardship on many.
153 The result: a perpetual cement famine, official rationing and enormous corruption.
154 Famine and a typhus epidemic struck in the winter of 1919-20.
155 During a plague and famine in Genoa, she worked selflessly among the stricken and endeared herself to all.
156 He was the one who released famine, pestilence and all the other evils into the world.
157 Once again the people of Sudan face the threat of famine.
158 The national union of workers in education and the arts gave 5 percent of their pay for famine relief.
159 They have lost no time in sounding the alarm about an impending famine, which they say threatens 1.9m people.
160 Join a pressure group or raise money for famine relief.
161 Close on the heels of the outbreak of war came the Great Famine Of 1942-43.
162 The typical peasant farmer has a precarious existence, at the mercy of flood, disease and famine.
163 The impact of the credit famine on indebted countries was secondary.
164 This had a crippling effect on the worse off at a crucial stage of recovery from the Famine.
165 This is a real sign of the times and completely eclipses global fears about ecology or famine.
166 David is compelled to choose between three classical punishments - disasters, famine or pestilence.
167 Those who were spared death by disease faced death by famine.
168 Old people were the most expendable and in times of famine they committed suicide by walking naked into the snow.
169 The passage concludes with a prophecy of renewed famine and deaths from hunger.
170 The seven great gates which were the Thebans' pride remained closed, and famine drew near to the citizens.
171 The Interior region also included large parts of the dry zone which were sparsely populated, where famine was not uncommon.
172 Pushing down the high price of food during a famine is desirable.
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173 The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.
174 Her famine leanness was softened by all the scarlet hair drifting around her.
175 Emergency Comic Relief was set up primarily in reaction to the famine in 1984.
176 The church has inspired countless compassionate men and women to help the needy in times of famine, war, and plague.
177 Save the Children's team has been in the country since last year, and gave an early warning of the famine.
178 Opposition sentiment was galvanized by a catastrophic famine and cholera epidemic in 1891-92.
179 The effects of rural famine took their toll on city-workers in due course.
180 The Famine Appeal has raised more than a million pounds through private donations and fund-raising activities.
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