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What is a dearth?

What is a dearth? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A period or condition when food is rare and hence expensive; famine.
  2. (by extension) Scarcity; a lack or short supply.
  3. (obsolete) Dearness; the quality of being rare or costly.
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A desperate dearth of top-shelf artworks is having a profound impact on Australia's salerooms.
This dearth of scientific evidence has done nothing to dampen the abolitionist ardour of the anti-DDT movement.
Sadly, apart from punters there is a dearth of Scottish presence at Cheltenham this week.
Unfortunately, the dearth of registrars and locums will make implementation of a new system difficult.
World cricket is fortunate to witness one of the greatest genuine fast bowlers of all time, and that too when there is a dearth for quickies.
Despite the dearth of light, his pupils were the size of pin-pricks, and were ringed in jagged circlets of gold.

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