Famine vs Starving - What's the difference?
famine | starving |
(uncountable) extreme shortage of food in a region
* 1971 , Central Institute of Research & Training in Public Cooperation
(countable) a period of extreme shortage of food in a region
* 1986 , United States Congress, House Select Committee on Hunger, Committee on Foreign Affairs, Subcommittee on Africa, Famine and Recovery in Africa
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As a proper noun famine
is the personification of famine, often depicted riding a black horse.As a verb starving is
.As a noun starving is
starvation.famine
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Noun
(wikipedia famine)- Dr. Bhatia pointed out that famine had occurred in all ages and in all societies where means of communication and transport were not developed.
- The root causes of the current famine are known: poverty, low health standards....
starving
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Verb
(head)Globalisation is about taxes too, passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}