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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151. To cut into a ham in mid-winter, when food supplies dwindled and green goods were scarce, was to witness the beginning of the end—the end being, of course, starvation.
152. It is the nine hundred days of horrible starvation, death, chilliness and ceaseless bombard.
153. Larval death ( within an hour to a few days ) from starvation or septicemia.
154. Just as there's no evidence that Richard II was actually tantalized into starvation there is also no evidence that king Tantalus actually reigned.
155. Long-term consumption of grass pea can lead to paralysis,(sentence dictionary) as the plant produces a neurotoxin — giving people a choice between starvation or paralysis.
156. Large numbers of people had to struggle on the verge of starvation.
157. But in starvation ketone bodies replace glucose to an increasing extent.
158. Drought has left more than two million people close to starvation.
159. Overview Gluconeogenesis synthesizes glucose from non carbohydrate precursors and is important for the maintenance of blood glucose levels during starvation or during vigorous exercise.
160. People in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Mozambique, Swaziland, Lesotho and Malawi are also suffering from starvation.
161. Instead of simply switching into Pacificism (at 220 AD) and staying there continously it is better to run cities in cycles of alternately food glut and starvation lasting 5 turns.
162. By the year 2025, no one will die of starvation because there will be food for everyone.
163. So it is possible that a person could die of starvation and still be fat.
164. When faced with starvation, cells form a macroscopic fruiting body containing thousands of resting myxospores.
165. A long drought withered the crops in the fields and only the arrival of a supply ship saved the colonists from starvation.
166. Consistent with theinduced PIP expression, root hydraulic conductivity ( Lp ) also increased during K ~ + starvation.
167. Varieties grown for local consumption would also suffer, potentially causing mass starvation in tropical regions.
168. Up to now, there are still many Africa children who die of starvation.
169. According to UN's statistics, hundreds of refugees in Africa die of starvation every day.
170. The otolith diameter of larva starvation group that could also be continual deposition under stagnated of body length.
171. These fatty fruits have been said to have the ability to put an end to starvation in Africa, as 48% of the fruit is made up of essential fatty acids, amino acids, Vitamins and triglycerides.
172. He estimates it took three days for them to die of starvation.
173. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by starvation attitudes toward food, and distorted body image.
174. Anorexia nervosa, a form of starvation, may affect adolescent girls.
175. Did they tut-tut as loudly over Northern Territory woman Vikki Johnston's lack of parenting skills, which led her seven-week-old son to die of starvation, as they had over Senator Conroy's story?
176. There is famine in many countries, and people are dying of malnourishment, of starvation, and of related diseases.
177. Claim statistical data indicated that truck clutch release bearing had high failure rate, the failure mode including abnormal noise, ablation, oil starvation and wear of bearing block shoulder, etc.
178. This may sound like shock therapy, but it is better than a slow death by starvation.
179. Starvation is an atrocity, and should never happen in the modern world.
180. Starvation is a common limitation of simple priority queuing mechanisms.
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