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starvation

/stahr-vey-shuhn/US // stɑrˈveɪ ʃən //UK // (stɑːˈveɪʃən) //

饿死,饿死了,饥饿,饿死人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act or state of starving; condition of being starved.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable or seeming to cause starving: a starvation diet.

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Examples

  • Many unhoused people work full time but earn starvation, unlivable wages.

  • A humanitarian crisis now unfolded live on India’s TV screens as nearly 1,000 migrants died from various lockdown-related causes—traffic accidents, starvation, and even police brutality as officers mercilessly enforced the rules.

  • It is the most severe starvation crisis in the world right now, and it is almost entirely manmade.

  • They seem to have died quietly, perhaps of cold, starvation, or illness.

  • Many animals swept offshore simply die of thirst or starvation before hitting islands.

  • For someone with anorexia, self-starvation makes them feel better.

  • First, the starvation: The state of New York is being sued again for funding public schools below constitutional levels.

  • So too, could it encourage population booms, or wipe out millions through starvation and destruction.

  • In fact, some assert that killing whales is necessary to prevent world starvation.

  • And food, far from being a source of energy and enjoyment, has become a battleground of guilt and shame and excess and starvation.

  • But in the great famines, as in India and Russia, God allows millions to die of starvation.

  • It was painfully evident to the most casual observer, that she had died of absolute starvation.

  • For these people, under the older dispensation, there was nothing but the poorhouse, the jail or starvation by the roadside.

  • Starvation from a lack of food supplies followed, and the population of the colony was reduced from 500 to 60 people.

  • He knew, if those watching him did not, the terrible pangs of starvation and here was provision for many a day.