Thesaurus: starvation

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1. n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
2. n. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
3. n. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
4. The act of word/starving">starving, or the word/state">state of being starved. Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. "Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them." Fitzed. Hall.
5. n:100 n. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period n. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine