Definition of Dearth

n.1.Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.
There came a dearth over all the land of Egypt.
- Acts vii. 11.
He with her press'd, she faint with dearth.
- Shak.
Dearth of plot, and narrowness of imagination.
- Dryden.


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