Famine

n.

1.

General scarcity of food; dearth; a want of provisions; destitution. There was a famine in the land. - Gen. xxvi. 1. Famine fever (Med.) typhus fever.

Noun	1.	famine - an acute insufficiency Synonyms: dearth, shortage
	2.	famine - a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

To dream of famine, signifies a negative turn in business and in health. This is generally a bad dream.absence, aridity, barrenness, beggary, birth control, contraception, dearth, defectiveness, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, dry womb, dryness, exiguity, family planning, imperfection, impotence, impoverishment, incompleteness, ineffectualness, infecundity, infertility, lack, need, omission, paucity, planned parenthood, scarcity, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sterileness, sterility, unfertileness, unfruitfulness, unproductiveness, wantage, withered loins