famine

Noun
  1. An acute insufficiency (synset 114473331)
    is a type of: deficiency, lack, want - the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable
    same as: dearth, shortage
  2. A severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death (synset 107330390)
    is a type of: calamity, cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune
    subtypes: the great calamity, the great hunger, the great starvation, the irish famine - a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)

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