STARVATION


Meaning of STARVATION in English

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.

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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.

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