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Best answers for Shortage – Crossword Clue


Answer: dearth


Clue Length Answer
Shortage4 letterswant
  1. Definition: 1. feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room"

Shortage4 lettersneed
  1. Definition: 1. have need of; "This piano wants the attention of a competent tuner"

Shortage4 letterslack
  1. Definition: 1. be without; "This soup lacks salt"; "There is something missing in my jewelry box!"

Shortage5 lettersslump
  1. Definition: 1. fall or sink heavily; "He slumped onto the couch"; "My spirits sank"

Shortage6 lettersdearth
  1. Definition: 1. an insufficient quantity or number

Shortage6 lettersfamine
  1. Definition: 1. a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

Shortage7 lettersdrought
  1. Definition: 1. a shortage of rainfall; "farmers most affected by the drought hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season"

Shortage7 lettersdeficit
  1. Definition: 1. a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning; "the people concerned have a deficit in verbal memory"; "they have serious linguistic deficits"

Shortage7 letterspaucity
  1. Definition: 1. an insufficient quantity or number

Shortage8 lettersunderage
  1. Definition: 1. dependent by virtue of youth

Shortage8 lettersscarcity
  1. Definition: 1. a small and inadequate amount

Shortage9 lettersshortfall
  1. Definition: 1. the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required; "new blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit"

Shortage10 lettersscantiness

    Shortage10 lettersstarvation
    1. Definition: 1. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

    Shortage10 lettersdeficiency
    1. Definition: 1. lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"

    Shortage10 lettersunevenness

      Shortage11 lettersshortcoming


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