Hyphenation of scarce

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scarce

Definitions of scarce:

1.
Deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought
2.
Only a very short time before
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- W.B.Yeats

Synonyms of scarce:

adj insufficient, deficient
adj scarce, rare, tight, meager, meagre, meagerly
adv barely, hardly, just, scarcely

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