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scarce in WordNet English dictionary

adverb
  1. 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
    barely  hardly  just  scarcely  scarce  barely  hardly  just  scarcely  scarce 
adjective
  1. deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
    "fresh vegetables were scarce during the drought"
    scarce 
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