noun
definition
A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
definition
Severe shortage of resources.
Examples of starvation in a Sentence
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.
Despite unparalleled importations of grain by sea and rail, despite the most strenuous exertions of the government, which incurred a total expenditure on this account of 11 millions sterling, the loss of life from actual starvation and its attendant train of diseases was lamentable.
General attacks of leaf-diseases invariably lead to starvation and necrosis of twigs, and similarly with the ravages of caterpillars and other insects.
The Spaniards were, however, annihilated by Lord Grey in 1580, and after nearly two years of wandering in Irish woods and bogs Sanders died of cold and starvation in the spring of 1581.
Three ships were sent out under letters of marque commanded by David, Lewis and Thomas Kirke, and Quebec, already on the verge of starvation, was compelled to surrender (1629).
Verses II, 19 (dearth of food), 20 (danger in the field, starvation in the house) agree curiously with Neh.
He fed them on the blood taken from their own veins daily, depriving them of all other food, and he found that the fatal cooling incident to starvation was thus postponed, and existence prolonged.
The cause of the failure was discovered to be fuel starvation.
At last both Wills and Burke died of starvation.
This was unquestionably the greatest of the voyages which followed from the impulse of Prince Henry, and it was rendered possible only by the magnificent courage of the commander in spite of rebellion, mutiny and starvation.
During that time the earth bore no fruit, and the inhabitants of the world were threatened with starvation.
Hundreds of thousands were slaughtered; hundreds of thousands set marching for Syria and Mesopotamia perished on the way by hardship, disease, starvation; those who escaped became fugitives; from first to last at least three-quarters of a million Armenians perished in Asia Minor in a population of less than two millions.
The condition of the itinerant labourers (peons) was still worse, the wages paid them being hardly sufficient to keep them from starvation.
The famine, emigration and the new poor law nearly got rid of starvation, but the people never became frankly loyal, feeling that they owed more to their own importunity and to their own misfortunes than to the wisdom of their rulers.
Drink children, you must be near starvation, animal blood is no way to live.
The response to the addition of nutrient broth, however, declined with the length of the starvation period.
The natural death of such a wild animal will occur by starvation, disease or injury, none of which can be considered humane.
In order to avoid anoxia (oxygen starvation ), it is vitally important that the pond is adequately oxygenated at all times.
The detainees were fed starvation rations once a day, with little time to eat.
All these people are paupers, driven from their country by starvation in the literal sense of the word.
To prevent fuel starvation at high rpm it is advisable to fit a fast flow fuel tap or have yours modified.
Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator's regime.
However, to avoid writer starvation, the Solaris threads package tends to favor writers over readers.
A regional famine early warning unit reports that up to 3.3 million need food relief with 380,000 facing imminent starvation.
The World Food Program is warning of imminent danger of mass starvation.
What is needed is secure, sustained access on the ground if widespread starvation is to be avoided.
It was immediately faced with the acute danger of actual starvation.
Living as one of the poor, London witnessed the squalor, degradation and slow starvation of the area.
Whatever the cause, some brain cells die from oxygen starvation.
Without them, there will be a time when nothing will stand between humanity and mass starvation.
They also often lack proper nutrition, and many even face starvation.
They have no money for their transportation, for they are receiving starvation wages or no wages, at all.
He died of starvation in Tierra del Fuego.
General atrophy or emaciation is brought about by the tissues being entirely or partially deprived of nutriment, as in starvation, or in malignant, tubercular, and other diseases of the alimentary system which interfere with the proper ingestion, digestion or absorption of food material.
The changes are also common in pernicious anaemia, advanced chlorosis, cachexias, and in the later stages of starvation.
Grant, as he pushed Pemberton before him to Granada, lengthened day by day his line of communication, and when Van Dorn, ever enterprising, raided the great Federal depot of Holly Springs the game was up. Grant retired hastily, for starvation was imminent, and Pemberton, thus freed, turned upon Sherman, and inflicted a severe defeat on that general at Chickasaw Bayou near Vicksburg (December 29).
Reported reverses to the enemy are proclaimed as crushing defeats, Germany is represented as within measurable distance of starvation, bankruptcy and revolution, and only yesterday a poster was issued in London, declaring that half the Hungarian army had been annihilated.
Incarceration was no doubt practised by irresponsible masters, regardless of personal rights, callous to the sufferings of their victims, to which death by starvation or horrible neglect was a welcome relief.
Upon a further demand, Motazz, having failed to procure money from his mother Qabiha, who was enormously rich, was seized upon and tortured, and died of starvation in prison (Shaaban 255, July 868).
Starvation itself (see also Hunger And Thirst) is of the nature of a disease which may be prevented by diet; nevertheless there are connected with it a few peculiarities of scientific and practical interest.
From 200,000 to 300,000 perished of starvation or of fever caused by insufficient food.
Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator 's regime.
There certainly were some who wanted to see the disappearance of the Jewish population through deliberate starvation.
Of course, her starvation diet could cause it too.
Each time you go on a diet, your protective mechanism goes a little deeper into the starvation mode.
Reports of starvation deaths are coming in from all over the country.