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Meaning starvation meaning
What does starvation mean?
starvation
Synonyms starvation synonyms
What other words have the same or similar meaning as starvation?
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Topics starvation topics
What do people use starvation to talk about?
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What words refer to dying from lack of food?
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What words are used to describe the manner in which someone dies?drop dead keel over slow death sudden death painful death excruciating death gruesome death horrible death die quietly die peacefully die with boots on die fighting fade away succumb (to illness) drown drowning asphyxiate suffocate choke to death sacrifice succumb (to a disease) suffocate suffocation starvation starve starve to death burn to death freeze to death
Examples starvation examples
How do I use starvation in a sentence?
Simple sentences
The poor cat was on the verge of starvation.
The poor child was on the verge of starvation.
Many children die of starvation in Africa.
They are on the border of starvation.
With his crew stranded at sea, Christopher Columbus was able to save them from starvation by pulling 100 rabbits out of his hat.
Tom was on the verge of starvation.
Starvation and disease were rampant among the lowest classes.
More people die from the effects of obesity than from starvation.
When we were on the brink of starvation, they saved our lives.
The failure of the crops was the major cause of starvation in that region.
Movie subtitles
A starvation diet may not agree with you.
It's slow starvation.
You'll die of starvation.
They have no voice now. Starvation is the big stick.
In Athens, they're dying of starvation, 400 a day.
It's nothing much. just a pit full of wolves half-mad with starvation. and trained to appreciate the flavor of human blood.
They don't even begin to know what real starvation is.
We'll die by starvation for sure!
This is starvation, Accattone!
Starvation sauce.
Then our weapon is starvation.
But driven by starvation and under the attack of Mexican and American troops, even they realised they must compromise or die.
They're facing starvation.
Darling Bo, if we don't eat now, we will die of starvation.
Amidst all this plenty, starvation.
If you don't die of starvation sooner. Oh, come, come.
Maybe you will, if you aren't trampled to death first or eaten alive or die of starvation.
It only leads to starvation.
Nothing much, just a pit full of wolves, half mad with starvation and trained to appreciate the flavour of human blood.
Oh, night starvation.
The starvation.
From starvation.
Here. just in case you want to act logically. to escape a slow death from starvation.
My brother's still out there, dying by inches, starvation, disease and horror.
Boyfriend gets starvation wages and you're a typist at the gasworks.
And prevent things like plague and starvation.
Old starvation-face!
Many people took refuge underground during the great war but starvation forced them to eat food produced on the surface.
Deena wandered into one of our tunnels half-dead of starvation, and we took her in.
Saved from starvation!
The result will be starvation.
I think we all realise that if we can't export, we shall die of starvation.
You'll find Jamaica near starvation thanks to our governor here.
It's another disease we don't have in Moscow: starvation.
At least he enlists because of starvation.
News and current affairs
How many lives can we spare from heat, starvation, or malaria?
Millions are sick and poor; many live at starvation levels.
In many of these countries, including the US, the European conquerors and their descendants nearly wiped out the indigenous populations, partly through disease, but also through war, starvation, death marches, and forced labor.
The expulsion of the aid agencies has put over a million Darfuris at risk of epidemics and starvation.
How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?
It also drives up food prices, which so far has pushed at least 30 million poor people into starvation, with another 40-130 million expected to be starving by 2020.
While this sounds like political fiction in a world where children still die from starvation, reprogenetics sounded like science fiction only thirty years ago.
Those who have survived conflict require help if they are not to succumb to disease and starvation.
Starvation was part of nature.
Training animals to perform tricks often involves starvation and cruelty.
They face death not only from starvation and exposure, but also from genocidal slaughter by the rapidly advancing IS forces, who regard the Yazidis as apostates and have already perpetrated atrocities unrivaled in their savagery.
There will be a rise in sea levels, more malaria, starvation, and poverty.
Campaigners across Europe and the US use the threat of starvation to argue for drastic carbon cuts.
Souleymane Abdoulaye showed the judge the sweltering underground cell where, as a boy of fourteen, he was crowded in with 72 other prisoners, only eleven of whom survived the near-starvation regimen.
Indeed, by taking the right actions now, we can eradicate starvation.
It could also be used to increase agricultural productivity, saving 200 million from starvation in the long run, while ameliorating natural disasters through early-warning systems.
Atop North Korea's starvation economy sits a personality cult that dwarfs those of Stalin or Mao.
When the rains fail, the grasses shrivel, the livestock die, and communities face starvation.
The older we become, the fatter we get, no matter what we eat - though this seems to conflict with the ob-gen argument that we need to get fat to avoid starvation.
The struggle to mold our future, to stave off the humanitarian disasters of war, disease, and starvation leaves little room to be philosophical about our place on this crumb of cosmic dust.