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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211 Like other poor African countries in this list the Central African Republic is actually self-sufficient in food but still a lot of people suffer from malnutrition and famine.
212 "Substantial foreign aid is needed or else there will be a large-scale famine, " said Matthew Kahane, the UN's humanitarian aid coordinator, speaking from the capital, Dushanbe.
213 Famine will return, and death and citizens will grieve for their townships.
214 Famine may revisit North Korea, parts of Africa or, disastrously for U.S. foreign policy, Afghanistan.
215 Human history is nothing but war, famine, failure, hatred, jealously, and emptiness.
216 After the famine, the government tried to co-opt the situation by establishing a special economic zone, which was supposed to attract foreign investment.
217 In 60 years, the place is leaded by 2 kings, famine ordeal them.
218 Food shortages have pushed China to the brink of famine, so Mr. Cheng, taking pity on her, invites Wang Qiyao to share his modest lunch of rice and salt pork.
219 In 2005 the government banned the private trade in grain that had sprung up as an improvised response to the last famine.
220 A century later, it had become the major food crop in Ireland; disastrous damage to the crop by a fungal blight caused the Irish potato famine in the mid-1800s.
221 So Elijah went to present himself to Ahab. Now the famine was severe in Samaria.
222 Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a burden to their sons, and the whole world of loneliness, poverty, and pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
223 But since we left off to offer sacrifice to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword, and by famine.
224 And a strange penultimate chapter on the Irish potato famine in which the potato blight is the villain, responsible for many deaths and massive emigration (shades of McNeill?).
225 The famine was licked and the Japanese mopping - up campaigns had slowed down.
226 The impending crisis is akin to the Irish potato famine, say biologists.
227 There had been a famine of razor blades for months past.
228 Children in famine, victims tortured by oppressors, helpless old people a hated burden to their pain make a mockery of what human life should be.
229 Known as a monoculture, a vast field of one species is risky because all the crops are vulnerable to the same diseases and conditions, setting up disasters like the 1840s Irish Potato Famine.
230 Famine represents a catastrophic failure of all the systems that people rely on to survive."That includes the deaths of livestock, displacement of people and conflict.
231 Occasional food packages enabled him to last out through the famine.
232 In 1846, the Irish Potato Famine brings Irish Catholics to America, along with their Halloween traditions. 1 J4 v- u2 q.
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233 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
234 And you walked right up to that girl you liked and you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
235 And you could not stop talking about the Irish potato famine?
236 Some Africans are suffering from famine, pestilence and other evils.
237 In the burst of emigration from Ireland in the 1840 s , the potato famine provided the push.
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