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starvation

English

  1. 🔊 the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
    “the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender”
  2. 🔊 a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period

Spanish

  1. 🔊 consunción starvation
  2. 🔊 inanición starvation, inanition

Similar words

starving famishment lenten spartan absence abstemious abstinence from food ascetic asphyxiation austere beggary choke choking defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation destitution drought drowning dwarfed dwarfish exiguous famine