"mean" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Losing the battle might well mean starvation would kill them all slowly in the end, but not today.
- However, even at best, rain can be unreliable and a dry year will mean a lean harvest and hunger, if not starvation.
- He is disgusted, and decides then that he would rather take the path of righteousness even if it meant starvation.
- For the natives, the enforced deliveries often meant starvation, since they were left with no time to grow and harvest their crops.
- It does not kill, but it crushes people's spirits and often leaves poor farmers unable to work, which can mean starvation.
- But remaining at this level meant starvation.
- Regular inundations were a cause for celebration; low waters often meant famine and starvation.
- Defeat had been at hand for a sedge now within the citadel would surely mean starvation and death.
- To have gone up the mountains would have meant early starvation.
- Half a million would have meant starvation.
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