starvation 音标拼音: [stɑrv'eʃən]
n . 饥饿,饿死
饥饿,饿死
starvation n 1 :
a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period [
synonym : {
starvation },
{
famishment }]
2 :
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 " [
synonym :
{
starvation }, {
starving }]
Starvation \
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n .
The act of starving ,
or the state of being starved .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
This word was first used ,
according to Horace Walpole ,
by Henry Dundas ,
the first Lord Melville ,
in a speech on American affairs in 1775 ,
which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas .
"
Starvation ,
we are also told ,
belongs to the class of '
vile compounds '
from being a mongrel ;
as if English were not full of mongrels ,
and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them ." --
Fitzed .
Hall .
[
1913 Webster ]
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "
starvation ":
Lenten ,
Spartan ,
absence ,
abstemious ,
abstinence from food ,
ascetic ,
asphyxiation ,
austere ,
beggary ,
choke ,
choking ,
defectiveness ,
deficiency ,
deficit ,
deprivation ,
destitution ,
drought ,
drowning ,
dwarfed ,
dwarfish ,
exiguous ,
famine ,
fasting ,
frugal ,
imperfection ,
impoverished ,
impoverishment ,
incompleteness ,
jejune ,
killing ,
lack ,
lean ,
limited ,
liver death ,
meager ,
mean ,
megadeath ,
miserly ,
narrow ,
need ,
niggardly ,
omission ,
paltry ,
parsimonious ,
poor ,
punishment of Tantalus ,
puny ,
restriction of intake ,
scant ,
scanty ,
scrawny ,
scrimp ,
scrimpy ,
serum death ,
shortage ,
shortcoming ,
shortfall ,
skimp ,
skimpy ,
slender ,
slight ,
slim ,
small ,
smotheration ,
smothering ,
spare ,
sparing ,
stingy ,
stinted ,
straitened ,
strangling ,
strangulation ,
stunted ,
subsistence ,
suffocation ,
thin ,
unnourishing ,
unnutritious ,
violent death ,
want ,
wantage ,
watered ,
watery ,
watery grave
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