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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181. With the advances in modern agriculture, there is no reason for people to die of starvation.
182. An estimated seven million people are at risk of starvation.
183. On the Korean Peninsula, an oppressive regime rules a people living in fear and starvation.
184. The activation of hepatic gluconeogenesis plays an important role in maintaining blood glucose level within a narrow range by hormone regulation in the long-term starvation.
185. Semi - starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection.
186. In 2006 rebel forces not satisfied with the way things were going attacked government forces, leaving another 50 000 people to die of starvation.
187. The EOB could be used as a good index for indicating the nutrition status of the Japanese eel because it was sensitive to starvation.
188. In this case, we may not want to queue every incoming request to our work queue, because the tasks queued for execution may consume too many system resources and cause resource starvation.
189. I once befriended two little girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation in a famine .
190. I gave, the present starvation is not due to scarcity but is due to maldistribution and underutilisation of available resources.
191. Yet for thousands of years rinderpest has affected people by killing cattle and other animals and causing starvation.
192. Riding to school in a ricksha each morning, I often passed corpses of people who had died in the night - from starvation, disease,(sentencedict.com) or accident. Bodies sometimes lay unclaimed for days.
193. The destruction of the kulak class triggered the Ukrainian famine, during which 3 million to 5 million peasants died of starvation.
194. For over a year we've been just this side of starvation.
195. I once befriended two little girls from Esthonia, who had narrowly escaped death from starvation.
196. It must be awful to dream of starvation after a seven - course dinner including that enormous crawfish.
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197. During starvation, activities of amylase and cellulose decreased dramatically in the first two days, and then maintained stable, while activities of pepsin and tryptase decreased slowly.
198. The WFP says that 5,000-10,000 people could die of starvation in southern Somalia in August.
199. t's been 41 years since Paul Ehrlich predicted imminent mass starvation, in his 1968 jeremiad, The Population Bomb.
200. If we die of starvation out here, you'll be in big trouble.
201. Aldermen Sweater told Grinder that starvation was no excuse for dishonesty.
202. An Arabian was banished to the desert with his followers to die of starvation.
203. If no one help me , I'll die of starvation.
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