Synonym: famishment, starving. Similar words: reservation, observation, conservation, elevation, innovation, captivation, starve, gestation. Meaning: [stɑr'veɪʃn /stɑː-] n. 1. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period 2. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine.
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31. Millions of people around the world live at or below starvation level.
32. Relief workers say it's worse than ever as disease and starvation combine to kill thousands.
33. Millions of people are threatened with starvation as a result of drought and poor harvests.
34. Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
35. Disease often follows on starvation because the body is weakened.
36. After three days without food,(sentencedict.com) the men were close to starvation.
37. The population faces starvation this winter without large-scale emergency food aid.
38. People are dying in their thousands from typhoid, cold and starvation.
39. Thousands more were dying of disease and starvation.
40. Some say it will save millions from starvation.
41. The four-year drought threatens two million people with starvation.
42. 30 million people die of starvation each year.
43. In 1970 a large area of bamboo flowered and died resulting in many deaths through starvation in the panda population.
44. A second bull was also seen but died the next day, presumably from starvation.
45. Thus the notion of security requires reformulation in terms of satisfaction of human needs: weapons can not meet the threat of starvation.
46. Evidence that the world's population is increasing faster than ever implies a gloomy prospect for humanity: starvation.
47. I'd rather face the Moor, starvation and anything else, than see Manfro Draper again.
48. Their small nomadic populations, growing and subdividing during the good years, were periodically culled by cold and starvation.
49. A global fall in the price of rice spread hardship and even starvation to many parts of Indochina.
50. They would eat a wild turkey only when they were near starvation.
51. More important in human terms, Izvestiia and other papers in early October recorded many instances of further starvation.
52. Large companies welcomed the minimum wage because it stopped cowboys undercutting them with cheap, bad services paid for in starvation wages.
53. When millions around the world are being killed in war, dying from starvation or living below the poverty line?
54. The lynx pay the price and many die of starvation.
55. Thousands of refugees are on the brink of starvation in camps south of the capital.
56. In the face of potential starvation, honey bees finally begin foraging on alfalfa, but they learn to avoid being clubbed.
57. Often the leftovers were all mixed up together, but it was none the less nourishment for those on the verge of starvation.
58. My physical hunger could be quite quickly assuaged, my mental starvation was a different matter.
59. He says none of the parties can afford to ignore the fact that thousands of people die of starvation each week.
60. An animal with a good diet will be larger than its twin on starvation rations.
More similar words: reservation, observation, conservation, elevation, innovation, captivation, starve, gestation, stationery, stationary, installation, nation-state, conservative, ratification, gratification, nation, libation, negation, operation, rational, zonation, relation, location, creation, education, national, equation, donation, formation, alleviation.