Starvation Synonyms

stär-vāshən
The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. deprivation
  2. belt-tightening
  3. need
  4. starving
  5. famishment
  6. want
  7. inanition

Words Related to Starvation

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Starvation Sentence Examples

  • Many of them fell into the slough of pauperism, and were saved from starvation by public doles.

  • He expected to die from starvation.

  • Hannibal reduced it in 216 by starvation, and destroyed and plundered the town.

  • He is said to have died of voluntary starvation, being threatened with total blindness.

  • The average number of seals killed annually is about 33,000.1 The 1 Owing to representations of the Swedish government in 1874 as to the killing of seals at breeding time on the east coast of Greenland, and the consequent loss of young seals left to die of starvation, the Seal Fisheries Act 1875 was passed in England to provide for the establishment of a close time for seal fishery in the seas in question.

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