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Synonyms for starvation
stɑrˈveɪ ʃənstar·va·tion
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Princeton's WordNet
starvation, famishmentnoun
a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
Synonyms:
famishment, starvingstarvation, starvingnoun
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"
Synonyms:
famishment, starving
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starvationnoun
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famishment
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
starvationnoun
Synonyms:
famishment
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#19109 | deprivation | |
#20872 | fasting | |
#21541 | famine | |
#23922 | starving | |
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#37778 | starve | |
#41510 | lakota | |
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How to use starvation in a sentence?
The poor on the borderline of starvation live purposeful lives. To be engaged in a desperate struggle for food and shelter is to be wholly free from a sense of futility.
These harrowing accounts of hunger represent the tip of an iceberg, syrians are suffering and dying across the country because starvation is being used as a weapon of war by both the Syrian government and armed groups.
Addiction, obesity, starvation (anorexia nervosa) are political problems, not psychiatric: each condenses and expresses a contest between the individual and some other person or persons in his environment over the control of the individual's body.
Urgent action needs to be taken to save hundreds of thousands of people in South Sudan from starvation.
North Korea is a giant prison where mass starvation is happening. It is an insane regime where there is no respect for human rights, and it is patently absurd that they would take this opportunity to criticize the U.S. this leaves us with a propaganda piece that is a very useful tool not only for North Korea and other hostile nations, but more dangerously, for the Muslim extremists of ISIS and Al Qaeda who will use this to enhance their recruitment and propaganda efforts and to attempt to entice their supporters into violence.
Translations for starvation
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- جوعArabic
- newynWelsh
- hunger, sultDanish
- Hunger, VerhungernGerman
- inaniciónSpanish
- nääntyminen, nälkiintyminen, nälkäFinnish
- famine, inanition, faimFrench
- gortaIrish
- भुखमरीHindi
- fameItalian
- 飢餓Japanese
- 기근, 굶주림Korean
- sultNorwegian
- uithongeringDutch
- svoltNorwegian Nynorsk
- dichinNavajo, Navaho
- inaniçãoPortuguese
- foameteRomanian
- голодание, голодRussian
- svältSwedish
- açlıkTurkish
- 饥饿Chinese
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