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Bmojtaba Posted 15 years ago
Vocabulary

Loss

hi

'The loss of their fertile lands threw the farmers into a panic'

loss means farmers didnt have enough land or means they had enough land but they didnt use it very well??

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Dear Bmojtaba, I think the sentence means that the farmers had fertile land but, for some reason, they lost the ability to exploit it. The reason could be natural (a drought, a flood) or even legal (use of the land was taken away from them by the owner or a higher authority). The land is still there, it is simply no longer fertile.

— JohnParis

  • Dear Bmojtaba, I think the sentence means that the farmers had fertile land but, for some reason, they lost the ability to exploit it.
  • The reason could be natural (a drought, a flood) or even legal (use of the land was taken away from them by the owner or a higher authority).
  • The land is still there, it is simply no longer fertile.
  • Since they cannot exploit the land, it threw them into a panic.
  • What was the rest of the story about?
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Dear Bmojtaba,

I think the sentence means that the farmers had fertile land but, for some reason, they lost the ability to exploit it. The reason could be natural (a drought, a flood) or even legal (use of the land was taken away from them by the owner or a higher authority).

The land is still there, it is simply no longer fertile. Since they cannot exploit the land
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Thanks your information was enough ,that was only an short example for word 'fertile' and there is no rest for it
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