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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121. Bulimia is a vicious cycle of starvation, eating then purging.
122. Fixed priority scheduling; i. e. , serve all from foreground then from background. Possibility of starvation.
123. "Soul" is the instinctive conditional reflex of human sense organs, such as starvation, sleepiness, hunger, tiredness, pain, ache, itch, etc.
124. Last week, the world mourned the loss of Norman Borlaug, the agronomist credited with saving as many as a billion people from starvation by introducing high-yield crop varieties.
125. This ruthlessly antisocialist programme came about against a background of civil war, widespread starvation and foreign invasion.
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126. “Animals can adapt to climate change, mainly by relying on migration, depopulation—which consists of starvation and cannibalism—and dietary change, ” he explains.
127. Sir Henry Wyat, a noble at the court of Richard III (1452-1485), was sent to the Tower of London by the monarch for political crimes, and was condemned to die of starvation.
128. Forests, too, are regrowing in rich countries, though still being lost in poor places where slash-and-burn is preferable to starvation.
129. On the verge of starvation, they ended up devouring their owner's flesh.
130. In fact, European trappers, traders, and explorers have used cukes for ages to fight off starvation.
131. Part of the new deal is meeting the immediate crisis and (in) the needs of those of (who are) now facing hunger and non - nutrition ( mal- nutrition) and even the starvation across the world.
132. Objective To study the effects of supplementation of protein diet on immune function in starvation rat.
133. In the meantime, international aid agencies such as the World Food Programme are likely to play the leading role in staving off mass food shortages and starvation.
134. Not much later, though, starvation caused Crazy Horse to surrender to US troops. He was killed while trying to escape.
135. I once befriended two little girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a famine. They lived in my family , and of course had plenty to eat.
136. Prolonged starvation and aging might lead to rejuvenation of embryogenic potential.
137. Maybe the population will grow because the poor people in Africa can get more food and they won't die of starvation.
138. They were with five nomad families who have watched all their animals die of starvation this year in a deep drought, and who have now decided their days of herding cattle are over.
139. Interactive effects of growth medium, cryoprotector and starvation treatment on bacterial survival during the storage of freeze-dried lactic acid bacteria have been studied.
140. Effect of the age of the rotifer Brachionus calyciflorus at starvation on life history strategy was studied by individual culture.
141. Those with short necks died of starvation , while the long - necked giraffes survived.
142. The effect of starvation inducement on surviving ability and anthracene degrading ability was observed.
143. By then one hundred and fifty-six men in the fleet had died of starvation, cold, and the flux and they were eating the calfskin that covered the ropes.
144. The balance is not starvation, we have striven to eliminate that which has contributed to the problem today.
145. A human may experience starvation, homelessness, having an accident etc. through the rigidity of karmic experience.
146. Another legend gives us the name for coffee or "mocha. " An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation.
147. The result of the epidemic of sightlessness is chaos and starvation, underpinned by a growing threat from the mysterious stinging triffids.
148. Not until the Great Depression of 1929 did widespread starvation threaten the American people.
149. If their scientist-servants don't feed them fresh liquid nutrients at least once a day, the cells die of starvation .
150. Inevitably, high prices threaten unrest at best and mass starvation at worst.
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