Associations to the word «Starvation»
Noun
- Malnutrition
- Famine
- Thirst
- Verge
- Exhaustion
- Fasting
- Ration
- Hunger
- Brink
- Beating
- Deprivation
- Starving
- Hardship
- Dying
- Ghetto
- Extermination
- Glucose
- Drought
- Torture
- Misery
- Carbohydrate
- Epidemic
- Blockade
- Shortage
- Homelessness
- Scarcity
- Disease
- Deportation
- Emigration
- Stave
- Metabolism
- Diet
- Calorie
- Sickness
- Exposure
- Mortality
- Brutality
- Drowning
- Wage
- Die
- Freezing
- Leningrad
- Cholera
- Suffering
- Labourer
- Depletion
- Genocide
- Pang
- Kazakh
- Poverty
- Desertion
- Diabetes
- Neglect
- Food
- Siege
- Civilian
- Poisoning
- Million
- Atrocity
- Plague
- Confinement
- Intake
- Insulin
- Diarrhea
- Obesity
- Peasantry
- Surrender
- Subsistence
- Peasant
- Alcoholism
- Thousand
- Auschwitz
- Deficiency
- Fuel
Adjective
Wiktionary
STARVATION, noun. A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
Dictionary definition
STARVATION, noun. A state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period.
STARVATION, noun. 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".
Wise words
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