scarcer

We have found lemma(root) word of scarcer : scarce.

Definitions


[skɛːs], (Adjective)

Definitions:
- (especially of food, money, or some other resource) insufficient for the demand
(e.g: as raw materials became scarce, synthetics were developed)


Phrases:
- make oneself scarce

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘parsimonious’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’


[skɛːs], (Adverb)

Definitions:
- scarcely
(e.g: a babe scarce two years old)


Phrases:
- make oneself scarce

Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘parsimonious’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’




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