Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act or process of starving.
- n. The condition of being starved.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state of starving or being starved; extreme suffering from cold or hunger; hence, deprivation of any element essential to nutrition or the proper discharge of the bodily functions: often used figuratively of mental or spiritual needs.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
- n. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Etymologies
- starve+-ation (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Over 50,000 have been compell 'd to die the death of starvation -- reader, did you ever try to realize what _starvation_ actually is?”
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy
“The only way to stop cycles of abundance to starvation is to bring in MANAGEMENT (hunters).”
“A system where you can eat as much bread as you want for three days is what you call a starvation policy?”
“Equating “dietary manipulation” with starvation is intellectually dishonest.”
“Perhaps you might want to ask someone from Darfur, or Somalia, or ..., places where starvation is clearly observable.”
“If death by any cause comes to be viewed as, say, death by starvation is viewed today, won't there be a huge demand for interventions to prevent others 'deaths, the attitude being, Sure, they may have failed to adequately prepare for that contingency, but do they really deserve to die for it?”
Would Ageless People be Libertarian?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Certainly poverty, as in dying of starvation, is bad.”
A Bad Day, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
“Now that we no longer rule them we give them food, clothing, medicines, weapons and whatever else they tell us they need and they live in starvation and poverty.”
Hillary Clinton will take U.N. plane to epicenter of African conflict
“Chronic starvation is looked upon as a matter of course.”
“Predators are usually after an easy meal, if their prey puts up enough of a fight they are apt to look elsewhere, unless starvation is a factor ... good thing they have good gun control in BC, good for the predators, I wonder if they have a ban on cat hunting as well????”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘starvation’.
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Headlines & Newsmakers
frugality, environment, extinction, bible, killer, jazz, cloning, dead, god, moon, global warming, bailout and 340 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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catalysts
catalysts leading to action.
aka the inciting incident, point of attack there's no major rules here, broad umbrella terms or specific works for now.
( randomness, writing )trauma, death, tragedy, embarrassment, epiphany, move, literature, brink, poll numbers, innovation, injustice, another headspace and 44 more...
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revelation
synonyms of revelation or even catalysts leading revelation (moments of clarity).. whatever they may be (preferably nouns)
also experiences that are possible paths to enlightenment (v...rebirth, awakening, catharsis, revival, renewal, dawning, spring, reunion, recollect, exodus, epiphany, prophecy and 87 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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me + student loans =
You know that feeling when you open your wallet and all you can find inside are ATM receipts?
When being a squatter is the least of your worries and that thing called dignity is shove...destitution, beggary, impecuniosity, indigence, mendicancy, poor, impoverishment, pauperism, pennilessness, penuriousness, penury, poverty and 168 more...
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Words from Table Talk's "Five Words" ...
The 5 words contest is a parlor game where people respond to the challenge to come up with a sentence which contains 5 specified words determined by the challenger (and makes a degree of sense). Sa...
mirage, bedecked, breasts, prairie dog, canyon, eau-de-vie, kinkajou, xiphoid, oubliette, quorum, president, atrocities and 62 more...
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Studying Book
scarcity, characterized, respectively, drought, starvation, quotas, eliminate, exclusion, settler, persecution, occupy, decline and 4 more...
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Death Becomes Her
The Grim Reaper is so creative.
Created in the midst of my previous list, Nightmares!. I had sick stuff on the brain.hanging, lethal injection, firing squad, electrocution, beheading, drowning, suffocation, starvation, crucifixion, thousand cuts, poisoning, disembowelment and 7 more...
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Occupational hazards
A complement to the "Defunct professions" list.
hatter's shakes, woolsorter's disease, goldsmelter's cat..., dustman's shoulder, painter's colic, lighterman's bottom, chimney sweep's c..., phossy-jaw, dialpainter's dis..., caisson disease, x-ray dermatitis, karoshi and 36 more...
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Suicides
teenage, ritual, copycat, forced, mass, cult, internet, assisted, murder-suicide, suicide by cop, suicide attack, attempted and 17 more...
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praveen kumar
hi, tradition, description, tolerate, embarrassment, organisational, although, contemporary, contender, intimidation, poverty, groom and 53 more...
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