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(stɑːʳveɪʃən)
uncountable noun [usu of/from N]
Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food.
Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
Synonyms: lack of food, famine, malnourishment, food deprivation More Synonyms of starvation

starvation in British English

(stɑːˈveɪʃən)
noun
a. 
the act or an instance of starving or state of being starved
b. 
(as modifier)
a starvation diet
starvation wages

starvation in American English

(stɑrˈveɪʃən)
noun
1. 
the act of starving
2. 
the state of being starved
adjective
3. 
likely to cause starving
a starvation diet

Examples of 'starvation' in a sentence
starvation

The main threat to fish in lakes and ponds is going to be oxygen starvation.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
They are fed starvation rations by their captors.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
We can do a great deal to save people from starvation and infectious diseases.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
She apparently was always on a starvation diet and tried to have coffee rather than food.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
It is feared he may have brain damage caused by oxygen starvation.
The Sun (2014)
Thousands were butchered or died from starvation or disease.
The Sun (2011)
As a result of oxygen starvation the brain tissue dies.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Many died of disease and starvation within weeks of arrival.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
An unknown proportion of the victims died from starvation or disease.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Death results largely from oxygen starvation.
Shreeve, Dr Caroline M Lower Your Blood Pressure in 4 Easy Stages (1989)
Anything less and it's starvation rations.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
To maintain that, he lives on what most of us would consider a starvation diet.
The Sun (2013)
Those who survived were left facing starvation and disease in the harsh winters of Siberia.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
The first is the sort of stress with which we are becoming more familiar as starvation and disease become commoner in many parts of the world.
Wills, Christopher The Runaway Brain: the Evolution of Human Uniqueness (1993)
 Poverty and starvation beckons.
The Sun (2008)
And, in a world when there is starvation and poverty, is spending large sums on your dog a bit silly?
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Also, the natural food available would soon be unable to sustain the increasing population, resulting in starvation and suffering for the deer.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
At least they haven't made themselves look ridiculous by too much plastic surgery, or making their lives a misery with starvation diets.
The Sun (2007)
Experts say oxygen starvation - and the impact of different time zones on your body clock - is a key factor in jet lag.
The Sun (2008)
A lot of people were very negative about it - they'd call it the starvation diet.
The Sun (2009)

In other languages
starvation

British English: starvation NOUN
Starvation is extreme suffering or death, caused by lack of food.
Over three hundred people have died of starvation since the beginning of the year.
  • American English: starvation
  • Brazilian Portuguese: inanição
  • Chinese: 饥饿
  • European Spanish: hambre
  • French: faim
  • German: Hunger
  • Italian: fame
  • Japanese: 餓死
  • Korean: 기아
  • European Portuguese: inanição
  • Latin American Spanish: hambre

All related terms of 'starvation'

starvation diet
insufficient food to stay alive
starvation level
→ to be living at starvation level
starvation wages
wages below the level necessary for subsistence
to be on a starvation diet
to be on a strict diet
to be living at starvation level
to have insufficient food to stay alive

Chinese translation of 'starvation'

starvation

(stɑːˈveɪʃən)

n (u)

  1. 饥(飢)饿(餓) (jī'è)
    to die of or from starvation 饿(餓)死 (èsǐ)
(noun) 
Over three hundred people had died of starvation.
Synonyms
lack of food
famine
The severity of the drought led to famine.
malnourishment
food deprivation

Additional synonyms

in the sense of famine
Definition
a severe shortage of food
The severity of the drought led to famine.
Synonyms
hunger,
want,
starvation,
deprivation,
scarcity,
dearth,
destitution

Synonyms of 'starvation'

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