starvation
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starvation
- /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/ US
- /stɑːˈveɪʃən/ UK
Rhymes with -eɪʃən
noun starvations
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A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
"We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits an
Similar: inanition
- Severe shortage of resources. Fuel starvation has several causes.
- A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work. Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.
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Closest in meaning: starving, famishment, starve, famine, hunger, hungry, depletion, malnutrition, misery, malnourishment, undernourishment, scarcity, impoverishment, appetite, destitution, fasting
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noun condition
| Español | inanición, hambreada, hambrazón, hambrina, marceada, carpanta |
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| 한국어 | 기근 gigeun, 굶주림 gumjurim |
| 日本語 | 飢餓 kiga |
| 中文 | 飢餓 /饥饿 jī'è, 糧荒 /粮荒 liánghuāng, 餓死 /饿死 èsǐ |
| Português | inanição |
| Français | inanition, famine, faim |
| Deutsch | Verhungern, Hunger |
| Italiano | fame |
| Română | foamete |
| Русский | го́лод gólod, голода́ние golodánije |
| العربية | جُوع شَدِيد jūʕ šadīd |
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