Synonyms for starvation
stɑrˈveɪ ʃənstar·va·tion

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1. starvation, famishmentnoun

   a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period

   Synonyms:
   famishment, starving

2. starvation, starvingnoun

   the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine

   "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"

   Synonyms:
   famishment, starving

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1. starvationnoun

   Synonyms:
   famishment

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1. starvationnoun

   Synonyms:
   famishment

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1. List of paraphrases for "starvation":

   famine, hunger, fasting, hungry, fame, hambre, lakota, deprivation, starve

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1. Yasir Arman:

   The government is not serious about the national dialogue and is just buying time for the re-election of a president who is wanted by the International Criminal Court, the regime has no solutions for the two areas except war and starvation.

2. Keir Giles:

   ' Deportation' is a euphemism. It's been used as a fairly innocuous term for what happened to these people, which was effectively enslavement and starvation. is shipping off the women, the children, the people that you want to remove from societies in order to neutralize them, they are generally met with pretty horrific fates. If they survived at all, they did not return for years or decades.

3. Tonya Conn:

   I've been doing rescues since 2004, we see a lot of starvation and a lot of cruelty, but that was the most horrific scene I've ever been on. Just cold-blooded malice.

4. Vanessa Nakate:

   There is far too little evidence of the $ 100 billion per year that was promised to help climate vulnerable countries to meet this challenge. But those funds were promised to arrive by 2020 and we are still waiting, you can not adapt to lost cultures, traditions and history. You can not adapt to starvation. It's time for leaders to put loss and damage at the center of the climate negotiations.

5. Jeff Labovitz:

   When you combine those emotions with the memories of the physical trauma being on a boat for several weeks or having been confined in brutal smugglers camps, then the trauma is compounded, in some cases the asylum seekers and migrants endured starvation, beatings, extortion, and rape.