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# dearth

noun (plural dearths)

«dearth» in the English dictionary: everyday and in Jewish tradition — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

A dearth is a shortage, a time when there is not enough of something, such as food. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearth/#m1)

### In the lessons

in the tales, a dearth is a famine or a time when there is too little food or too few people to choose from

### Examples

- There was a dearth of rain that summer and the crops failed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearth/#x1)
- Our town had a dearth of doctors. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearth/#x2)
- In the dearth of bread, the family grew hungry. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearth/#x3)

### Note

nothing for maths

## In Jewish tradition

A time without enough food, a famine. In Nehemiah poor people had to mortgage their fields to buy grain.

**Interpretation.** Nehemiah's story is read as a lesson in fairness to the poor, since he demanded that the rich return what they had taken.

### Examples

- Some also there were that said: 'We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses; let us get corn, because of the dearth.' (Writings NEH.5.3, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/#x1)

### Note

nothing for maths

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «dearth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dearth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dearth» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/dearth.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of «dearth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/D/dearth/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«dearth» in the Judaism dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/judaism/w/dearth.html) on Mova free.