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famine
 
Noun famine has 2 senses
  1. dearth, famine, shortage - an acute insufficiency
    --1 is a kind of lack, deficiency, want
  2. 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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