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famine


famine - noun

  • an acute insufficiency
  • a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

    • famine - thesaurus

    dearth   shortage  


    View spelling list -ine saying /in/ and learn about the word famine in the Spellzone English spelling course, Unit 31. Word endings:-ture, -tain, ine.

    Scrabble score for famine

    f is 4 a is 1 m is 3 i is 1 n is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 11

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