DEARTH
(noun) an insufficient quantity or number
synonyms : paucityThe paucity of her savings prevented her from visiting her homeland. -added by naila_inlas
The inane chat room had a pitiful paucity of brain cells in it. -added by BagomboSnuffbox
(noun) an acute insufficiency
synonyms : famine , shortage
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.
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(Tag: ) earth is big. de-earth.....(read as dearth) means small...small in quantity..or scarcity
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(Tag: English) dearth sounds like death. high death rate can result in scarcity of man-power
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(Tag: Global) Dearth - deers + earth. Deers in earth are getting insufficient in number
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(Tag: ) earth is full of things, dearth means lacking of things
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(Tag: english) dearth = death + r (reason) reason for death is scarcity(of food, shelter,health) thus dearth is scarcity
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(Tag: ) For want of food, they were starving and tried eating DIRT.
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(Tag: ) De-Earth means to dig...because of scarcity of water we started digging.....
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(Tag: ) DEARTH = dead + earth; dead earth is always insufficient in quantity.
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(Tag: ) due to shortage of resources man started de-earthing(digging and looking under earth) for them...
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(Tag: ) earth is full of things, dearth means lacking of things
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(Tag: English) dearth leads to death!
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