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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61. If the population continues to expand, Ehrlich argues, mass starvation and ecological disaster will be the inevitable consequence.
62. In the countryside where up to 1,000 people die of starvation a day, heavy fighting between rival clans was reported.
63. Depression can be secondary to starvation and coexisting complications, since improved mood often follows nutritional rehabilitation.
64. He was a long-haired tabby she had found in the kitchen garden, old and nearly dead from starvation.
65. The general economic news for December was bad with forecasts of poverty,(http://sentencedict.com/starvation.html) even starvation in the countryside.
66. Elsewhere, typhus carried off many who had been weakened by starvation; in Chesterfield the pestilence was almost certainly bubonic plague.
67. The first order of business is for the guys to save themselves from the elements, starvation, and that darn bear.
68. Fears of a higher death toll were compounded after reports indicated that up to 4,000,000 people risked death from starvation.
69. She set off about an hour later, the pockets of her waterproof stocked with chocolate bars against starvation.
70. In addition to the political prisoners, possibly another million and a half people died from starvation, disease or overwork.
71. In societies where people face a constant struggle against starvation and have a plain, unvaried diet, cravings are virtually unknown.
72. Consequently, the larger creatures that prey on them, the raptors, are fleeing starvation too.
73. Another harvest has failed, and international aid agencies warn of the threat of mass starvation.
74. This is because, under such starvation conditions, the body starts to burn muscle rather than fat.
75. It can get really frantic when your sprogs are on the verge of starvation.
76. Nearly one million Somalians are on the brink of death by starvation or disease.
77. In Numbers 11 certainly the people do not appear to be faced with starvation.
78. He won great victories yet he reduced Prussia to poverty and starvation.
79. If individuals are forced to face the reality of starvation, everyone will buckle down to work.
80. In the rush not to be left behind, scruples about starvation and labour camps are forgotten.
81. The consequences of starvation depend on the type of dietary deficiency from which it arises.
82. A prisoner had escaped from Auschwitz and ten prisoners were required to die in the starvation bunker - block 13.
83. Its empire had collapsed, its protective ring of island bastions smashed, its people on the verge of starvation.
84. Tens of thousands of mental hospital patients died from starvation in the hospitals.
85. His normal expectation was to live on the edge of starvation.
86. Starvation gave a gaunt menace to their sullen anger - and they were angry, he could not doubt it.
87. Now the starvation diet is beginning to slow me dawn.
88. The shipment was greeted with delight by the local community where people have died of starvation during the harsh highland winter.
89. It was only after the reasonable harvest of 1922 that the spectre of nation-wide starvation receded.
90. We were dying of starvation anyway, so we might as well try to escape.
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