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famine Noun a severe shortage of food [Latin fames hunger]
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| Ever arose the increasing tale of famine on the Inside. When the babe was three years old, just after the great war, during which no man could sow or reap, a famine came upon the land, and the people murmured because of the famine, and looked round like a starved lion for something to rend. He must have been born in some time of general drought and famine, or upon one of those fast days for which his state is famous. |
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