crop failure; omission from collection
Meanings
2 senses · 8 examplesverb
to fail to yield; to suffer crop failure (due to disaster)
Commonly used in agricultural and news contexts to describe total loss of harvest due to natural disasters such as drought, flood, or typhoon.
Due to severe drought, all summer crops failed completely.
Last year's typhoon caused extensive banana crop failure.
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Due to persistent drought, this year's wheat harvest has essentially failed.
This frost has caused severe crop failure in the orchard.
verb
to omit from a collection; to fail to include (in a compilation)
formalUsed in academic, editorial, or library contexts regarding the compilation of texts, bibliographies, or anthologies.
Compiling poems that were omitted from the 'Complete Tang Poems'.
This article was omitted when the collected works were being compiled.
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Scholars have discovered many ancient documents that were previously omitted.
Due to editorial oversight, several writers' works were omitted.