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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91. Most are malnourished, only saved from starvation by water and food provided enroute by the Red Cross.
92. Distribution problems have probably caused more deaths from starvation in recent years than an actual shortage of food.
93. They began to sell their land and, in a final bid to avoid starvation, started to flock to Calcutta.
94. Polyp feeding Butterflyfish which die from starvation in captivity Which fishkeeper do you most admire - and why?
95. These countries need aid and support to help sort out their main problems ie family planning, health, starvation etc.
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96. It is a case of huge inequalities, between and within nations, and of starvation amid plenty.
97. But he'd probably be dead, frozen, lying under a pile of leaves, dead from starvation.
98. The effect of that in 1988-9 was not starvation in developing countries but higher food bills.
99. The missionaries had saved her from starvation and damnation, and in return Manshin Anjima let them call her Mary.
100. There was growing concern over an estimated 780,000 people facing starvation in central and southern areas.
101. Some draftees embark on starvation diets so that they weigh below the acceptable level at the medical.
102. They fought against the prior violence of child labor and starvation wages.
103. The starvation effects of anorexia nervosa are very different to those found in conditions such as protein-calorie malnutrition or famine.
104. Thereafter, it is maintained by the effects of starvation and, in some cases, by psychosocial factors.
105. Many horses died of starvation, and most of those that survived grew too weak for use in pulling the lightest guns.
106. The survivors were close to starvation when they were rescued.
107. Thousands are dying from disease and starvation and yet no one seems to care.
108. Nevertheless, doctors continued to support the use of starvation diets.
109. Some of these isolated populations are subject to predation, others to starvation, flooding, severe winters or summer drought.
110. Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food.
111. He obviously looked ill, but what I found terrible was the look of starvation on his emaciated body and face.
112. Many people have not eaten for days, and at least five have died of starvation.
113. I was suffering from acute sunstroke, starvation and exhaustion.
114. A modest Proposal dramatizes starvation by cannibalism.
115. Emaciated indicates a serious condition resulting from starvation.
116. To cause to become lean, usually by starvation; emaciate.
117. Starvation or low calorie diets negatively impact the metabolism.
118. Somalian Children are dying everyday from starvation.
119. Thus, children will soon die of starvation.
120. It's been 41 years since Paul Ehrlich predicted imminent mass starvation, in his 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb.
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