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Definition of scarce adverb from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

scarce

adverb
 
/skeəs/
 
/skers/
(literary)
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  1. only just; almost not synonym scarcely (1)
    • I can scarce remember him.
    Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘restricted in quantity or size’, also ‘mean’): from a shortening of Anglo-Norman escars, from a Romance word meaning ‘plucked out, selected’.
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