starvation
IPA: stɑrvˈeɪʃʌn
noun
- A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
- (figurative) Severe shortage of resources.
- (computer science) A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
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Examples of "starvation" in Sentences
- They suffered from starvation.
- Is it the blight or the starvation and deaths
- This resulted in the starvation deaths of millions.
- The cause of the engine stoppage was fuel starvation.
- Certainly poverty, as in dying of starvation, is bad.
- The immediate consequence of this is starvation and death.
- Starvation and the cold climate killed all of the inhabitants.
- Starvation, exposure and scurvy all contributed to the deaths.
- Prosperity or starvation is the responsibility of the individual.
- The probability of the Affirmative solving for starvation is minimal.
- The cause of emaciation is a lack of nutrients, starvation, or disease.
- Equating “dietary manipulation” with starvation is intellectually dishonest.
- 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?
- Perhaps you might want to ask someone from Darfur, or Somalia, or ..., places where starvation is clearly observable.
- Over 50,000 have been compell 'd to die the death of starvation -- reader, did you ever try to realize what _starvation_ actually is?
- 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.
- 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?
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