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famine

noun as in hunger

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Earlier this month, a UN-backed assessment said there was a strong likelihood that famine was imminent in areas of northern Gaza.

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The final estimated toll of famines under Stalin came to more than 7 million of his own citizens.

Aid workers say the conflict has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis, with many thousands at risk of famine.

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A UN-backed assessment warned earlier this month that there was “strong likelihood that famine is imminent in areas within the northern Gaza Strip”.

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The charity single was conceived as a way to tackle the famine that devastated Ethiopia in 1984.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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