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Meaning of famine in English
(Definition of famine from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of famine from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of famine
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The dispute thus centred on the value of visual evidence from different observers during the famine and in the past.
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The severity of famine gradually increased in the east which slowly proceeded from west through the decades.
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How could the effects of these famines have been so severe and what lessons can we learn from those terrible events?
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For such communities, strategies of risk aversion, as well as customary responses to famine, would still have mattered.
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However, specific empirical critiques of the making and implementing of famine policy were more effective.
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Some even predicted a near-global meltdown with famines stretching across our globe.
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Abnormally high motality may be the hallmark of famine, but societal breakdown is its essence.
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Fifteen droughts were severe enough to have caused famine, and 11 of them, or 87%, followed large eruptions within two years.
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Moreover, some of the workers left areas plagued by famine.
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Certainly some of the prints showed starvation and famine so severe that money and supplies must have been wanted.
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However, human migrations, landless people, famine and fragmented landscapes speak for themselves.
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Their greatest differences stemmed from the manner in which they presented themselves as famine managers, and to whom.
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At this point, villages were teetering on the brink of famine as locust invasions threatened to consume the limited food crops that had been planted.
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This was a gritty world of poverty, famines, floods, banditry, unrest.
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Since the early 1970s, the region seems to have been widely beset by civil wars, political upheavals, famines and other natural disasters.
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दुष्काळ, उपासमार…
飢饉（ききん）…
açlık, kıtlık…
famine [feminine], famine…
fam…
hongersnood…
அதிக எண்ணிக்கையிலான மக்களுக்கு போதுமான உணவு இல்லாத சூழ்நிலை, நோய் மற்றும் மரணத்தை ஏற்படுத்துகிறது, அல்லது இது நிகழும் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட காலம்…
(अवस्था या काल का) सूखा, अकाल, भुखमरी…
દુષ્કાળ, ભુખમરો…
hungersnød, sult…
hungersnöd…
kebuluran…
die Hungersnot…
hungersnød [masculine], hungersnød, matmangel…
قحط, غذائی قلت, فاقہ زدگی…
голод…
ఎక్కువ మందికి తగినంత ఆహారం లేని పరిస్థితి, అనారోగ్యం మరియు మరణానికి కారణమవుతుంది లేదా ఇది జరిగిన ఒక నిర్దిష్ట కాలం…
দুর্ভিক্ষ…
hladomor…
bahaya kelaparan…
ความอดอยาก…
nạn đói kém…
głód, klęska głodu…
기근…
carestia…
