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UK
/stɑːvˈeɪʃən/
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[ US /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/ ]
[ US /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
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the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
they were charged with the starvation of children in their care
the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender - a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
How To Use starvation In A Sentence
- No single lab test helps with the diagnosis; however, a battery of tests should be performed to rule out medical complications of starvation.
- By then, the town had been well-fortified and withstood a siege of nine weeks before the Mexicans were forced to surrender from starvation. Cinco de Mayo: What is everybody celebrating?
- Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
- Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
- The fact that other reports of excess heat do not produce these hydrides and can evolve over days or weeks suggests the opposite condition of starvation where oscillation is delayed and slow but still occurs over time as the atomic gas slowly accumulates the velocities needed to exchange time dilation for energy. Will 2010 be the Year of Zero Point Energy?
- For decades Kalahandi has been synonymous with droughts, famines, starvation and poverty.
- Preliminary analysis: death from overdose of coldsleep drugs, combined with oxygen starvation and dehydration when cocoon failed to properly deploy. The City Who Fought
- I didn't see any Western country with so many elements of social morbidity: poverty, beggary and starvation.
- Death by starvation and dehydration is neither painless nor euphoric.
- The goats that grazed these trees began to lose their teeth and many died of starvation, much to the despair of their owners. Times, Sunday Times