Betekenis van:
famine

famine
Zelfstandig naamwoord
  • tekort aan voedsel; tekort aan voedsel; tekort aan voedsel
  • an acute insufficiency

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famine
Zelfstandig naamwoord
    • a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

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    Voorbeeldzinnen

    1. Poor crops may cause famine.
    2. Disease and famine go together.
    3. These countries were often visited with famine.
    4. Famine caused great distress among the people.
    5. The long drought was followed by famine.
    6. My work is always feast or famine.
    7. Famine stared us in the face.
    8. War has produced famine throughout history.
    9. Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.
    10. That is why so many people are suffering from famine.
    11. More often than not, famine is accompanied by plague.
    12. I'm appealing on behalf of the famine victims.
    13. Famine followed upon the eruption of the volcano.
    14. He says firefighting is a feast or famine job.
    15. Can you share food with others in the face of famine?