What does famine meen?

Answer 1

A famine is a period in time when there is not enough food to feed those affected by it.

Definitions of famine on the Web: * dearth: an acute insufficiency * a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn * A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species, which phenomenon is usually accompanied by regional malnutrition ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine * extreme shortage of food in a region; a period of extreme shortage of food in a region; During times of famine

en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Famine * Widespread hunger caused by the near complete lack of food.

www.regentsprep.org/Regents/global/vocab/topic_alpha.cfm * Japan ...disasters occurred in his time, however, and peasant protests rose to more than 50 per year during the 1780s. A great eruption of Mount Asama in 1783 was followed by a widespread famine during the Temmei era (1783-87), in which large numbers of people starved to death. ...

www.britanica.net/EBchecked/topic/243191/Great-Disaster * A situation of extreme scarcity of food, potentially lead to widespread starvation

www.developmenteducation.ie/glossary/ * Significant lack of food

1759.ccbn-nbc.gc.ca/documents/glossary_en.html * Starvation brought about usually by a lack of rain.

www.godonthe.net/dictionary/f.html * Food scarcity to the point of starvation for large numbers of people. Famine was a chronic problem in China, especially in the eighteenth and

www.questia.com/PM.qst * famines - Acute food shortages characterized by large-scale loss of life, social disruption, and economic chaos.

highered.mcgraw-hill.com/sites/0070294267/student_view0/glossary_e-l.html * drastic, wide-reaching food shortage

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