definition for famine
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famine famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death. calamity, catastrophe, tragedy, disaster, cataclysm - an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity; the earthquake was a disaster.
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Famine But the most remarkable of all was that which arose in Egypt in the days of Joseph, which lasted for seven years (Gen. 41-45). Famines were sent as an effect of God's anger against a guilty people (2 Kings 8:1, 2; Amos 8:11; Deut. 28:22-42; 2 Sam. 21:1; 2 Kings 6:25-28; 25:3; Jer. 14:15; 19:9; 42:17, etc.).
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- Definition of plight - a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation Definition of plight - a dangerous, difficult, or otherwise unfortunate situation dictionary
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drought Definition of drought. 1  1 : a period of dryness especially when prolonged; specifically : one that causes extensive damage to crops or prevents their successful growth resistant to drought. 2  2 : a prolonged or chronic shortage or lack of something expected or desired a drought of creativity.
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- As the name suggests, the Northern Chinese Famine affected the northern portion of the country of China. As the fifth-worst famine in history, this disaster lasted from 1876 to 1879 and is believed to have killed 13 million people.amine and drought differ from other devastating natural disasters like the worst earthquakes and the most destructive tornadoes in the length of time of the suffering. Tornadoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis last a matter of minutes, while famine and drought can last years at a time.
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- Undernutrition definition, nutritional deficiency resulting from lack of food or from the inability of the body to convert or absorb it. See more. Dictionary.com
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disaster See more synonyms on Thesaurus.com. noun. 1. a calamitous event, especially one occurring suddenly and causing great loss of life, damage, or hardship, as a flood, airplane crash, or business failure.
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- The noun STARVATION has 2 senses: 1. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period. 2. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. Familiarity information: STARVATION used as a noun is rare.
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- DEFINITION OF DISASTER ‘Disaster is a crisis situation that far exceeds the capabilities’. - Quarentelly, 1985. ‘Disaster’ is defined as a crisis situation causing wide spread damage which far exceeds our ability to recover. Thus, by definition, there cannot be a perfect ideal system that
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What is a disaster? What is a disaster? A disaster is a sudden, calamitous event that seriously disrupts the functioning of a community or society and causes human, material, and economic or environmental losses that exceed the community’s or society’s ability to cope using its own resources. Though often caused by nature, disasters can have human origins.
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- Full Definition of POVERTY. 1. a: the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions b: renunciation as a member of a religious order of the right as an individual to own property. 2. : scarcity, dearth. 3. a: debility due to malnutrition b: lack of fertility.
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Joint press release Famine hits parts of South Sudan. UN agencies warn that almost 5 million people urgently need food, agriculture and nutrition assistance. 20 February 2017, Juba – War and a collapsing economy have left some 100,000 people facing starvation in parts of South Sudan where famine was declared today, three UN agencies warned. A further 1 million people are classified as being on the brink of famine.
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issue insight Famine is a more complex problem than a shortage of things to eat; it is a challenge of market and distribution, the result of a long, slow decline in access to food. That decline may occur for any number of reasons, including natural disasters, politics, repressive governments, and poor management of resources. The famine cycle may be triggered by a natural disaster, but is often exacerbated by man-made issues, such as reduced wages and/or rising food prices.
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- Definition of disaster. 1  1 obsolete, occult : an unfavorable aspect (see aspect 2a) of a planet or star. 2  2 : a sudden calamitous event bringing great damage, loss, or destruction natural disasters; broadly : a sudden or great misfortune or failure The party was a disaster.
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Hunger In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs. Throughout history, portions of the world's population have often experienced sustained periods of hunger.
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- Definition of poverty - the state of being extremely poor, the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount Definition of poverty - the state of being extremely poor, the state of being inferior in quality or insufficient in amount
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- Learner's definition of STARVE. 1. [no object] : to suffer or die from lack of food : to suffer extreme hunger. Without food they would starve. They left him to starve out in the desert. Those people are starving. providing food for starving children. The famine caused many to starve to death.
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- Full Definition of STARVATION. 1. : the act or an instance of starving. 2. : the state of being starved. See starvation defined for English-language learners. See starvation defined for kids.
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deficiency Noun. 1. famine-an acute insufficiency. dearth, shortage. deficiency, lack, want-the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable; there is a serious lack of insight into the problem; water is the critical deficiency in desert regions; for want of a nail the shoe was lost.
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How do famine and hunger differ? Not sure if this is complete (probably is)but you get the gist of it. List of famines. In a country like USA, you may have roughly 1.6 million people who are homeless and may be going through prolonged periods of hunger and starvation due to inability to access food that is readily available and bountiful. You have an overabundance of food that is easily available as long as you can pay for it.
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The Phases of Starvation - What Happens When We Starve Definition: Starvation. Starvation is defined as a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake needed to maintain human life. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage and eventually, death. The basic cause of starvation is an imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure.
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disasternoun  [ C or U] B2 (an event that results in) great harm, damage, or death, or serious difficulty: An inquiry was ordered into the recent rail disaster (= a serious train accident). It would be a disaster for me if I lost my job. This is one of the worst natural disasters ever to befall the area.
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- Definition of 'Rationing'. Definition: Rationing refers to an artificial control on the distribution of scarce resources, food items, industrial production, etc. In banking, credit rationing is a situation when banks limit the supply of loans to consumers.
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- harvest noun [C/U]. › the ​activity or ​time of ​gathering a ​crop, or a ​crop that is ​gathered: [U] We ​picked the ​corn that had been ​missed during harvest. [C] He had a ​large ​garden and ​loved to ​share his harvest with ​others.
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- unemployment noun [U]. › social studies the ​situation of not having a ​job that ​provides ​money, or the ​number of ​people in this ​situation at any ​time: high/​low unemployment The unemployment ​rate was 4 ​percent in ​October. (Definition of unemployment from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press).