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What does famine mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) extreme shortage of food in a region
  2. (countable) a period of extreme shortage of food in a region
  3. (dated) starvation or malnutrition
  4. severe shortage or lack of something
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The Aids pandemic in some rural areas has led to famine, that is affecting millions of people.
It's the government chaos and resulting famine that is responsible for the AIDS crisis.
As a result of the war, in addition to drought and famine, more than 750,000 left their country as refugees.
He sees the crops withered through drought and devoured by pests on a shrivelled land struggling to escape the paralysis of famine.
In the following year, threatened by famine and hostile Sioux, they recrossed the river to plant corn.
They estimate that mortality from the famine was in the range of four to six million deaths.

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