noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a starvation diet (= in which you eat very little )
▪
A starvation diet can have negative health effects.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
diet
▪
Rats placed on to a semi-starvation diet live longer than those given food ad libitum.
▪
Nevertheless, doctors continued to support the use of starvation diets .
▪
Some draftees embark on starvation diets so that they weigh below the acceptable level at the medical.
▪
Now the starvation diet is beginning to slow me dawn.
■ VERB
die
▪
Tens of thousands of mental hospital patients died from starvation in the hospitals.
▪
In addition to the political prisoners, possibly another million and a half people died from starvation , disease or overwork.
▪
Many people have not eaten for days, and at least five have died of starvation .
▪
Thousands more were dying of disease and starvation .
▪
In the countryside where up to 1,000 people die of starvation a day, heavy fighting between rival clans was reported.
▪
We were dying of starvation anyway, so we might as well try to escape.
▪
When millions around the world are being killed in war, dying from starvation or living below the poverty line?
▪
Many horses died of starvation , and most of those that survived grew too weak for use in pulling the lightest guns.
dye
▪
When millions around the world are being killed in war, dying from starvation or living below the poverty line?
▪
Thousands more were dying of disease and starvation .
▪
We were dying of starvation anyway, so we might as well try to escape.
face
▪
I'd rather face the Moor, starvation and anything else, than see Manfro Draper again.
▪
If individuals are forced to face the reality of starvation , everyone will buckle down to work.
▪
In Numbers 11 certainly the people do not appear to be faced with starvation .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪
30 million people die of starvation each year.
▪
A global fall in the price of rice spread hardship and even starvation to many parts of Indochina.
▪
The four-year drought threatens two million people with starvation .
▪
The survivors were close to starvation when they were rescued.
▪
Thousands of refugees are on the brink of starvation in camps south of the capital.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪
If individuals are forced to face the reality of starvation , everyone will buckle down to work.
▪
My physical hunger could be quite quickly assuaged, my mental starvation was a different matter.
▪
Often the leftovers were all mixed up together, but it was none the less nourishment for those on the verge of starvation .
▪
Two had already died of starvation and young children were reported to be very weak from lack of food.