famine : Idioms & Phrases
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Famine fever
(Med.) , typhus fever.
Webster 1913
the irish famine
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noun a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between 1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6 million emigrated (most to America)
the Great Hunger; the Great Calamity; the Great Starvation.
