f 4 a 1 m 3 i 1 n 1 e 1
6 letters · 11 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun an acute insufficiency
noun a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
originBorrowed from Middle French famine, itself from the root of Latin fames. Cognate with Spanish hambruna (“famine”).
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