famine
crunch
scarcity
drouth
drought
starvation
underresourced
scarcen
underserve
scant
longage
dearth
pauce
insufficiency
scarceness
out at elbow
water shortage
lackless
inadequacy
emptyhandedness
poormouth
in need
from hunger
want
dearthy
needy
dys-
dollarless
privation
destitute
at a premium
indigent
unsufficient
poor as a church mouse
res angusta domi
undersupply
skid row
unpossessing
destitution
in rags
pauper
potless
tight
impoverish
poorness
ultrapoverty
naked
strings
poverty
povvo
the wolf is at the door
limp
necessity
impoverishedness
impoverished
pinchingly
malady
dirt-poor
underpopulation
poverty-stricken
necessitous
unwealth
close to the bone
underpeopling
starved
ultrapoor
poor
poverty-ridden
impoverishment
disadvantaged
deficient
impoverishedly
dearthful
thin
arm
on one's uppers
shortage
on the breadline
underlive
malnutrition
thin on the ground
dicky
deprived
in extremis

English words for 'Severe shortage or lack of something.'

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