单词 | scarce |
释义 | scarce ![]() adj. scarc·er, scarc·est 1. Insufficient to meet a demand or requirement; short in supply: Fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought. 2. Hard to find; absent or rare: Steel pennies are scarce now except in coin shops. adv. Idiom: Barely or hardly; scarcely. make (oneself) scarce Informal 1. To stay away; be absent or elusive. 2. To depart, especially quickly or furtively; abscond. [Middle English scars, from Old French scars, from Vulgar Latin *excarpsus, narrow, cramped, from past participle of *excarpere, to pluck out, alteration of Latin excerpere, to pick out; see EXCERPT.] scarceness n. |
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