noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a famine victim (= someone who has had no food to eat for a long time )
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Aid is being shipped to famine victims.
famine/flood relief
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We donated $1,000 to the American Red Cross for flood relief.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
great
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In 1922 they were the hub of the maelstrom that was the great famine of 1921-2.
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Like Concerned Women, it also grew out of the great famine of 1974.
severe
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However, when Karamoja experienced severe famine in 1979 and 1980, aid organizations streamed in to provide relief food.
widespread
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It could mean permanent coastal flooding in some countries and widespread famine in others.
■ NOUN
potato
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The potato famine , so many millions of people were affected by it and all the deaths that have occurred.
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Their families had come to the United States during the nineteenth-century potato famine .
relief
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A special series of graded poll-taxes towards famine relief began in February 1922.
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Then there was the famine relief work, the Ethiopean situation, the Kurdish situation.
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Even the famine area was made to pay one-half of the supplemental tax levied for famine relief .
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Join a pressure group or raise money for famine relief .
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The national union of workers in education and the arts gave 5 percent of their pay for famine relief .
victim
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It hopes to mount 15 flights a day - carrying enough food to feed 500,000 of the most desperate famine victims .
■ VERB
face
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United Nations experts say as many as four million people are facing famine after a severe drought and crop failure.
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Those who were spared death by disease faced death by famine .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Millions of people in Africa continue to die because of war and famine .
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The four-year drought has caused widespread famine across Afghanistan.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also invoked against famine and plagues.
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In this way famine can be prevented now and in the future.
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Paradoxically, it was the grain-surplus areas which were most at risk of severe deprivation and periodic famine .
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Similarly, it is indefensible to be inactive in the face of third world poverty and famine .
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Since the seed for this year's crops has been eaten, the risk of a prolonged famine is increasing.