Starvation

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act or process of starving.
  • n. The condition of being starved.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. a condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
  • adj. likely to cause starving
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The state of starving or being starved; extreme suffering from cold or hunger; hence, deprivation of any element essential to nutrition or the proper discharge of the bodily functions: often used figuratively of mental or spiritual needs.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
  • n. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deprivation    privation    hunger    hungriness   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Alsatian    Americanization    Appalachian    Balkanization    Christianization    Confederation    Corp.    Croatian    Dalmatian    Desegregation   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    famine    hunger    privation    sickness    destitution    deprivation    exhaustion    poverty    humiliation    wretchedness   
     
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