Definition of starvation in English:
starvation
noun stɑːˈveɪʃnˌstɑrˈveɪʃ(ə)n
mass nounSuffering or death caused by lack of food.
thousands died of starvation
Example sentencesExamples
- Dundee specialised in garrotting and Aberdeen used starvation - it was cheaper.
- The government was the chief agency that offered work for the poor and saved them from starvation.
- Their remaining options were sleeping on the streets, prostitution, crime and starvation.
- We are pretty sure that hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation during those years.
- Most of them died of starvation, disease or brutality at the hands of the prison authorities.
Synonyms
extreme hunger, lack of food, famine, want, undernourishment, malnourishment, fasting
deprivation of food
death from lack of food
Definition of starvation in US English:
starvation
nounˌstɑrˈveɪʃ(ə)nˌstärˈvāSH(ə)n
Suffering or death caused by hunger.
thousands died of starvation
Example sentencesExamples
- The government was the chief agency that offered work for the poor and saved them from starvation.
- Most of them died of starvation, disease or brutality at the hands of the prison authorities.
- Their remaining options were sleeping on the streets, prostitution, crime and starvation.
- Dundee specialised in garrotting and Aberdeen used starvation - it was cheaper.
- We are pretty sure that hundreds of thousands of people died of starvation during those years.
Synonyms
extreme hunger, lack of food, famine, want, undernourishment, malnourishment, fasting