Synonyms:
starvation, famishment
Meaning: a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Synonyms:
starvation, starving
Meaning: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
Usage examples
He cannot feign suffering and starvation like this.
In chronic cases death occurs from stricture of the oesophagus causing starvation.
It looks to me like a case of starvation, or exhaustion,--possibly a combination of both.'
There was nothing left for me but death by starvation or death by the hands of the mutineers.
It would have answered the purpose quite as well, if fasting or starvation were the only objects in view.
By dint of cutting down cottonwood trees and gathering the bark and branches for fodder, they managed to prevent them from dying of starvation.
There was still room for further small precautions against starvation owing to the impending coal strike, and she took stock of her provisions.
What had become of them he had not the faintest conception--they might be wandering yet, lost within the labyrinthine tunnel, if not dead from starvation.
They were facing arrest and imprisonment, humiliation and disgrace--perhaps ruin and starvation. Only in this way could they reach the ears of the people.
I might be driven into the wide Atlantic and feel all the tortures of starvation or be swallowed up in the immeasurable waters that roared and buffeted around me.