famine (n.)
- absence
- aridity
- barrenness
- beggary
- contraception
- dearth
- defectiveness
- deficiency
- deficit
- deprivation
- destitution
- drought
- dryness
- exiguity
- imperfection
- impotence
- impoverishment
- incompleteness
- ineffectualness
- infertility
- lack
- need
- omission
- paucity
- scarcity
- shortage
- shortcoming
- shortfall
- starvation
- sterileness
- sterility
- unproductiveness
- want
Death
Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be fill'd.
Famine is in thy cheeks.
He is one of those wise philanthropists who in a time of famine would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks.
They that die by famine die by inches.
