The thing passed by approaching, or coming near. (S.)
2.
سَنَةٌ مُجْحِفَةٌA year that renders the cattle lean: or a year that destroys people, or impoverishes them, or injures them, (تُجْحِفُ بِهِمْ,) by slaughter, or by marring, or destroying, the cattle. (TA.)
3.
And مُجْحِفَةٌ, alone, A calamity; (K;) because it extirminates people. (TA.)