Look up: famine

1. Famine
   [comics] Famine (Autumn Rolfson) is a fictional character, a Mutant supervillain appearing in the Marvel Comics universe. She is most notable for being one of the original four horsemen of the villain Apocalypse. ==Fictional character biography== Autumn Rolfson was a young, spoiled anorexic ...
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2. famine
   a catastrophic food shortage affecting large numbers of people; it may be due to poor harvests following drought, floods, earthquake, war, social conflict, etc.; -DDMG Category: Management in the public and private sector
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3. Famine
   Fam'ine noun [ French famine , from Latin fames hunger; confer Greek ............... want, need, Sanskrit hāni loss, lack, hā to leave.] General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. 'Worn ...
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4. famine
   General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. 'Worn with famine.' 'There was a famine in the land.' (Gen. Xxvi. ... <medicine> 1) Famine fever, typhus fever. ... Origin: F. Famine, fr. L. Fames hunger; cf. Gr. Want, need, Skr. Hani loss, lack, ha to leave. ... Source: Websters Dictionary ... (01 Mar 1998) ...
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5. famine
   noun a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
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6. Famine
   • (n.) General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution.
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7. famine
   (from the article `Angola`) ...900 percent in 1994 and more than 2,500 percent the following year. Food production reached such low levels that food was either imported or ... ...farmers who form the backbone of Ethiopian agriculture became reluctant to risk producing surplus foods for market. Food shortages, already made ... ...In o...
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8. Famine
   A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including crop failure, overpopulation, or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every continent in the world has experienc...
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9. famine
   Severe shortage of food affecting a large number of people. A report made by the United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), published in October 1999, showed that although the number of people in the developing world without sufficient food declined by 40 million during the first h...
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10. Famine
    [disambiguation] A famine is a widespread shortage of food that may apply to any faunal species. Famine may also refer to: ...
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11. Famine
    [novel] Famine is a novel by Irish writer Liam O`Flaherty published in 1937. Set in the fictionally named Black Valley in the west of Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s, the novel tells the story of three generations of the Kilmartin family. In a review for the Irish Times, author ...
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12. Famine
    [album] Famine is the first official Release By Death Metal act Graves of Valor it was released September 11th 2007 via Tragic Hero Records On May 30th 2006 Graves of Valor released two demo tracks to their Myspace page entitled "Architect" and "Kiss the Snake" The full Track listing was rel...
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13. Famine
    [1981 novel] Famine is a 1981 horror novel written by Scottish writer Graham Masterton. The story is about a nationwide famine that sweeps America, rendering all sources of food contaminated in one way or another. The plot revolves around Ed Hardesty, a wheat farmer who owns South Burlington...
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