starvation
Use Starvation in a sentence
ʃən adjective
2.
liable or seeming to cause starving: a starvation diet.
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| —n | |
| a. the act or an instance of starving or state of being starved | |
| b. (as modifier): a starvation diet; starvation wages | |
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Medical Dictionary
starvation star·va·tion (stär-vā'shən)
n.
The act or process of starving.
The condition of being starved.
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Example sentences
Crisis situations contribute to hunger and starvation.
Lack of calories-hunger-is a headline-grabber, particularly as rising food prices push more people towards starvation.
Only five people die from shark attacks yearly, while millions of people die from starvation.
Here they ran across a poor devil who had for four months been lost in the forest and was dying of slow starvation.
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