famine

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Noun famine has 2 senses

dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency
--₁ is a kind of lack, deficiency, want
famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
--₂ is a kind of calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm
--₂ has particulars:
the Irish Famine, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, the Great Calamity

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