starvation as a noun: - 1
- 2
starvation
noun
1 starvation
A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period.
synonym: famishment.
Roget 640:
insufficiency;
inadequacy,
inadequateness;
incompetence
etc.
(impotence)
158;
deficiency
etc.
(incompleteness)
53;
imperfection
etc.
651;
shortcoming
etc.
304;
paucity;
stint;
scantiness
etc.
(smallness)
32;
none to spare,
bare subsistence.
scarcity,
dearth;
want,
need,
lack,
poverty,
exigency;
inanition,
starvation,
famine,
drought.
dole,
mite,
pittance;
short allowance,
short commons;
half rations;
banyan day.
emptiness,
poorness
etc.
adj.;
depletion,
vacancy,
flaccidity;
ebb tide;
low water;
a beggarly account of empty boxes"
[Romeo and Juliet];
indigence
etc.
804;
insolvency
etc.
(nonpayment)
808.
... show more
Roget 956:
fasting;
xerophagy†;
famishment,
starvation.
fast,
jour maigre [Fr.];
fast day,
banyan day;
Lent,
quadragesima†;
Ramadan,
Ramazan;
spare diet,
meager diet;
lenten diet,
lenten entertainment;
soupe maigre [Fr.],
short commons,
Barmecide feast†;
short rations.
... show more
Dutch: ondervoeding, uithongering
Polish: wygłodzenie
2 starvation
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.
synonym: starving.
Polish: zamorzenie, zagłodzenie
Moby thesaurus: Lenten, Spartan, absence, abstemious, abstinence from food, ascetic, asphyxiation, austere, beggary, choke, choking, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, drowning, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, famine, fasting, frugal, imperfection, impoverished, impoverishment, incompleteness, jejune, killing, lack, lean, limited, liver death, meager, mean, megadeath, miserly, narrow, need, niggardly, omission, paltry, parsimonious, poor, punishment of Tantalus, puny, restriction of intake, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serum death, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smotheration, smothering, spare, sparing, stingy, stinted, straitened, strangling, strangulation, stunted, subsistence, suffocation, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, violent death, want, wantage, watered, watery, watery grave ... show more.
debug info: 0.016