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dearth
/dɝθ/
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What does dearth mean?
noun
- A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
- Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
verb
- (dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
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The Smith pedigree has been traced a little more particularly than the Stevensons’, with a similar dearth of illustrious names.
Through dearth of reliable information about the antecedents in this case we were unable to make a card of causative factors.
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And when it is any dearth, the knights be right poor, and then they sell both their horse and their harness.
Man, at first a ravenous hunter after game, brought the flock into existence and turned shepherd to avoid a time of dearth.
Two canine animals in a time of dearth, may be truly said to struggle with each other which shall get food and live.