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Scarce
see synonyms of scarceAdjective
1. scarce
deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
Example Sentences:'fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought'
Adverb
2. barely, hardly, just, scarce, scarcely
only a very short time before
Example Sentences:'they could barely hear the speaker''we hardly knew them''just missed being hit''had scarcely rung the bell when the door flew open''would have scarce arrived before she would have found some excuse to leave'
WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.
Scarce
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Scarce
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Scarce
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