disastrous harvest

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• harvest — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ abundant (esp. AmE), bountiful, bumper, good, large, rich ▪ We ve had a bumper harvest of apples this year. ▪ …   Collocations dictionary

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• harvest — 1. noun /ˈhɑɹ.vɪst,ˈhɑːvɪst,ˈhaːvəst/ a) The process of harvesting, gathering the ripened crop. This years cotton harvest was great but the corn harvest disastrous b) The yield of harvesting, i.e. the gathered, cut ... fruits of horti or agri… …   Wiktionary

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