Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of
famine .
Etymologies
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famine + -like
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Examples
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The goal is to turn Afghanistan not into a Jeffersonian democracy but into a quasi-functioning state, restoring order, roads, bridges and water supplies and ending the faminelike conditions that are producing refugees.
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