Crossword-Solution: DEARTH 6 letters, 109 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word Word Type Definition
Dearth n. Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack
of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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DEARTH anagram DAHTER, HATRED, REDHAT, THREAD

We have 109 clues for the answer “DEARTH”

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Great lack 1 answer
Hardly a plethora 1 answer
Inadequate supply 1 answer
Lack (of) 1 answer
Lack of supply 1 answer
Opposite of "profusion" 1 answer
Opposite of a glut 1 answer
Opposite of a surplus 1 answer
Plethora's opposite 1 answer
Real scarcity 1 answer
Relative lack 1 answer
Scarce supply 1 answer
Scarcity; famine 1 answer
Serious lack 1 answer
Serious shortage 1 answer
Serious shortfall 1 answer
Severe lack 1 answer
Severe shortage 1 answer
Situation of need 1 answer
short age 1 answer
seven lean years 5 answers
A SEVERE SHORTAGE OF FOOD RESULTING IN VIOLENT HUNGER AND STARVATION AND DEATH 10 answers
AN ACUTE INSUFFICIENCY 10 answers
AFFECTED BY SCARCITY AND EXPENSIVE TO BORROW 11 answers
AN INSUFFICIENT QUANTITY OR NUMBER 11 answers
A PROLONGED SHORTAGE 11 answers
A STATE OCCASIONED BY SCARCITY OF MONEY AND A SHORTAGE OF CREDIT 11 answers
malnutrition 19 answers
underfeeding 19 answers
undernourishment 19 answers
defective nutrition 20 answers
insufficient nutrition 20 answers
scantiness 22 answers
Penury 35 answers
impecuniousness 35 answers
neediness 35 answers
poorness 35 answers
stiff neck 37 answers
patchiness 37 answers
beggarliness 38 answers
Indigence 39 answers
dispossession 39 answers
privation 40 answers
impoverishment 40 answers
insolvency 41 answers
destitution 43 answers
scarceness 44 answers
meagreness 49 answers
tightness 49 answers
rigidity 50 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EERTA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DEARTH (5)

Prior to the Revolution there is a dearth of records; the earlier documents and archives of the Custom-House having, probably, been carried off to Halifax, when all the king’s officials accompanied the British army in its flight from Boston.
The Scarlet Letter Nathaniel Hawthorne 1992
Given the current dearth of digital data that is appealing and unencumbered by extremely complex rights problems, developing a network version of American Memory could do much to help make network multimedia a reality.
LOC Workshop on Electronic Texts Library of Congress 1993
But after Corey had greeted Irene he glanced at the novel under his eye, and said, in the dearth that sometimes befalls people at such times: "I see you're reading Middlemarch.
The Rise of Silas Lapham William Dean Howells 2008
The Smith pedigree has been traced a little more particularly than the Stevensons’, with a similar dearth of illustrious names.
Records of a Family of Engineers Robert Louis Stevenson 2010
For there's a tiny wooden cross that pricks up through the snow: (Poor Little Moccasins! you're tired, and so you lie at rest.) And there's a grey-haired, weary man beside the campfire glow: (O fiddle mine! the tears to-night are drumming on your breast.) The Wanderlust The Wanderlust has lured me to the seven lonely seas, Has dumped me on the tailing-piles of dearth; The Wanderlust has haled me from the morris chairs of ease, Has hurled me to the ends of all the earth.
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Robert W. Service 1995

Quotes with DEARTH (3)

All is a-swarm with commentaries: of authors there is a dearth.
Michel de Montaigne The Complete Essays
Every man who has reached even his intellectual teens begins to suspect that life is no farce that it is not genteel comedy even that it flowers and fructifies on the contrary out of the profoundest tragic depths of the essential dearth in which its subject's roots are plunged. The natural inheritance of everyone who is capable of spiritual life is an unsubdued forest where the wolf howls and the obscene bird of night chatters.
Henry James Sr.
Dissident Natan Sharansky writes that there are two kinds of states -- "fear societies" and "free societies," two kinds of consciousness. The consciousness derived of oppression is despairing, fatalistic, and fearful of inquiry. It is mistrustful of the self and forced to trust external authority. It is premised on a dearth of self-respect. It is cramped. In contrast, the consciousness of freedom is one of expansiveness, trust of the self, and hope. It is a consciousness of l…
Naomi Wolf Give Me Liberty: A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 96 times in crossword archives (1970–2025).