Found 2 items, similar to STARVATiON.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: starvation
starvation
n 1: a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential
nutrients over a prolonged period [syn:
famishment]
2: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine;
“the
beseigers used starvation to induce surrender”;
“they were
charged with the starvation of children in their care”
[syn:
starving]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Starvation
Starvation
\Star*va"tion\ (st[aum]r*v[=a]"sh[u^]n), n.
The act of starving, or the state of being starved.
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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.
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