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Starvation
Starvation meaning
A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition. | Severe shortage of resources. | A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
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Example sentences (20)
All of this has contributed to the “catastrophe” that Türk described: widespread malnourishment and the deaths of children and other vulnerable people from starvation and starvation-related diseases.
Rabbit starvation is similar to other metabolic issues that arise in times of extreme starvation.
This method has been validated using a starvation model, as starvation is known to cause enhancement in the feeding response in hydra.
Additionally, the British kept exporting the potatoes that did survive out of Ireland, despite mass starvation.
Aid groups have sounded the alarm on the "apocalyptic" humanitarian situation in the narrow territory, warning it is close to being overwhelmed by disease and starvation.
As the death toll from Israeli airstrikes mounts, a humanitarian crisis is rapidly spiraling amid warnings that people are at risk of starvation as Israel tightens its chokehold on the territory.
Biologists have previously blamed a giant seagrass die-off for causing starvation among the threatened species, mostly along Florida’s east coast.
Compounded by fertilizer pricing, droughts, supply-chain disruption, fuel costs, food costs, shipping costs, we now have 349 million people marching to starvation.
It symbolizes starvation and depravity faced by those braving the American West, usually resulting in cannibalism.
It tells the story of desperate tenants who struggle to protect their families from starvation, eviction, and emigration while grappling with heartbreaking choices to survive.
My mother, who lived in Schaghticoke, N.Y., with her eight siblings and parents, existed on the edge of starvation at times.
No country has recognised the Taliban government, which is battling to keep afloat an economy where more than half the population face starvation, according to aid agencies.
Oxfam Australia chief executive Lyn Morgain said Australia should invest to deal with the immediate starvation crisis but also develop a long-term strategy to address global hunger.
Parents had welcomed the freeze in school fees considering the obtaining economic hardships and the fast approaching hunger and starvation.
Put simply, it is a form of ethical starvation where the state-sanctioned reduction of calories is justified by a moral responsibility to the planet.
She kept them upbeat as they all struggled with starvation.
Some people were building ovens from sand and soil to bake bread the traditional way — and save their families from starvation.
Starvation befell Sanji and Zeff after they became stranded on an uninhabited island.
The economic fallout of the war in Ukraine, and continued blockades of Ukrainian grains had intensified the famine crisis in East Africa while millions of lives are at risk due to hunger and mass starvation.
The hunter-gatherer, at the mercy of what game or crops were available, walked a fine line between feast and famine or, better stated, using sugar for metabolism and converting to ketosis (“gluconeogenesis”), that escape mechanism against starvation.