nouze — meaning in English

English meaning

• dearth noun A serious shortage or scarcity of something.
• emergency noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
• necessity noun The state of being required or unavoidable.
• penury noun Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.

Senses

nouze is used for these senses in English:

• dearth (transitive, dated, obsolete) To cause or produce a scarcity in something.
• emergency (sometimes, attributive) A situation which poses an immediate risk and which requires urgent attention.
• penury (uncountable) Extreme need or want; destitution, poverty; (countable) an instance of this.
• penury (countable, now, chiefly, poetic) Often followed by of: a lack of something; a dearth, a scarcity.

emergency — full definition

1. noun A sudden, serious situation that requires immediate action.
2. noun The department of a hospital that treats people needing urgent medical care.

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