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famine

  • 1 famine

    ['fæmin]
    ((a) great lack or shortage especially of food: Some parts of the world suffer regularly from famine.) λιμός

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  • 2 Famine

    subs.
    P. and V. λιμός. ὁ, V. ἀσιτία, ἡ, P. σιτόδεια, ἡ.

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  • 3 famine

    λιμός

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  • 4 reduce

    [rə'dju:s]
    1) (to make less, smaller etc: The shop reduced its prices; The train reduced speed.) μειώνω, ελαττώνω
    2) (to lose weight by dieting: I must reduce to get into that dress.) αδυνατίζω
    3) (to drive, or put, into a particular (bad) state: The bombs reduced the city to ruins; She was so angry, she was almost reduced to tears; During the famine, many people were reduced to eating grass and leaves.) φέρνω, (παθητ.) καταντώ
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    - reduction

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  • 5 relief

    [rə'li:f]
    1) (a lessening or stopping of pain, worry, boredom etc: When one has a headache, an aspirin brings relief; He gave a sigh of relief; It was a great relief to find nothing had been stolen.) ανακούφιση
    2) (help (eg food) given to people in need of it: famine relief; ( also adjective) A relief fund has been set up to send supplies to the refugees.) βοήθημα, αρωγή
    3) (a person who takes over some job or task from another person, usually after a given period of time: The bus-driver was waiting for his relief; ( also adjective) a relief driver.) αντικαταστάτης (π.χ. με αλλαγή βάρδιας)
    4) (the act of freeing a town etc from siege: the relief of Mafeking.) λύση πολιορκίας
    5) (a way of carving etc in which the design is raised above the level of its background: a carving in relief.) ανάγλυφο
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    - relieved

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  • 6 stalk

    I [sto:k] noun
    (the stem of a plant or of a leaf, flower or fruit: If the stalk is damaged, the plant may die.) μίσχος,κοτσάνι
    II [sto:k] verb
    1) (to walk stiffly and proudly, eg in anger: He stalked out of the room in disgust.) βαδίζω αγέρωχα
    2) (to move menacingly through a place: Disease and famine stalk (through) the country.) προχωρώ αμείλικτα
    3) (in hunting, to move gradually as close as possible to game, eg deer, trying to remain hidden: Have you ever stalked deer / been deer-stalking?) πλησιάζω αθόρυβα,παρακολουθώ αθέατος
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  • 7 Inanition

    subs.
    P. and V. τροφῆς ἀπορία, ἡ, V. ἀσιτία, ἡ; see Famine.

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Inanition

  • 8 Privation

    subs.
    A being deprived: P. στέρησις, ἡ, ἀποστέρησις, ἡ, V. τὸ τητᾶσθαι.
    Want: P. and V. ἀπορία, ἡ; see Want.
    Famine: P. and V. λιμός, ὁ, V. ἀσιτία, ἡ, P. σιτόδεια, ἡ.

    Woodhouse English-Greek dictionary. A vocabulary of the Attic language > Privation

См. также в других словарях:

  • famine — [ famin ] n. f. • 1155; du rad. du lat. fames « faim » 1 ♦ Manque d aliments qui fait qu une population souffre de la faim. ⇒ disette. Pays qui souffre de la famine. ⇒ faim. Famine endémique. La famine règne dans tout le pays. Les grandes famines …   Encyclopédie Universelle

  • famine — Famine. s. f. Disette publique, de pain & des autres choses necessaires à la nourriture. Il y eut une grande famine cette année là. par un temps de famine. la famine est un des fleaux dont Dieu chastie les hommes. la famine se mit dans la ville.… …   Dictionnaire de l'Académie française

  • Famine — Fam ine, n. [F. famine, fr. L. fames hunger; cf. Gr. ????? want, need, Skr. h[=a]ni loss, lack, h[=a] to leave.] General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. Worn with famine. Milton. [1913 Webster] There was a famine in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • famine — mid 14c., from O.Fr. famine hunger (12c.), from V.L. *famina, from L. fames hunger, starvation, famine, of unknown origin …   Etymology dictionary

  • famine — Famine, Fames. La famine est ensuyvie, Secuta est fames. Apporter famine aux citoyens, Famem ciuibus inferre …   Thresor de la langue françoyse

  • Famine — Famine, s. Port Famine …   Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon

  • Famīne — Famīne, Hafen an der Ostküste der südlichsten Halbinsel von Patagonien (Südamerika); hier errichteten 1582 die Spanier das Fort Ciudad del Rey Felipe; doch starb die Besatzung von 400 bis auf 24 wegen Mangels an Lebensmitteln aus, u. als 1587 die …   Pierer's Universal-Lexikon

  • famine — index paucity, poverty, privation Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • famine — [n] hunger dearth, destitution, drought, misery, paucity, poverty, scarcity, starvation, want; concepts 674,709 Ant. feast, plenty, stores, supply …   New thesaurus

  • famine — ► NOUN 1) extreme scarcity of food. 2) archaic hunger. ORIGIN Old French, from faim hunger , from Latin fames …   English terms dictionary

  • famine — [fam′in] n. [ME < OFr < VL * famina < L fames, hunger < IE base * dhē , to wither away > DAZE] 1. an acute and general shortage of food, or a period of this 2. any acute shortage 3. Archaic starvation …   English World dictionary

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