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scarce


2scarce

adv

Definition of SCARCE

: scarcely, hardly <scarce was independence half a century old, when a … split occurred — John McPhee>
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Examples of SCARCE

  1. I could scarce believe what I was hearing.

First Known Use of SCARCE

15th century

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