Synonyms of starvation

starvation

noun

as in hunger

suffering or death caused by having nothing to eat or not enough to eat; the condition of someone who is starving

The famine brought mass starvation.

Millions of people face starvation every day.

They died from starvation.

Related Words

• hunger
• famine
• malnutrition
• undernourishment
• stomach
• rapacity
• munchies
• appetite
• emptiness
• voracity
• craving
• famishment
• greed
• belly
• rapaciousness
• fast
• ravenousness
• voraciousness
• sweet tooth
• hunger strike
• gluttony
• hoggishness
• gourmandism

Dissimilar Words

• satisfaction
• satiation
• fullness
• satiety
• glut
• repletion
• surfeit
• fill
• repleteness
• inappetence

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of starvation

In occupied Oleshky, starvation has become a weapon of the occupation. — Anna Husarska, Washington Post, 9 July 2026

Triggered by starvation, exercise, or diet, ketogenesis is an alternative form of energy production. — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 7 July 2026

During the Blob and the strong El Niño that followed, researchers linked those cascading changes to widespread starvation among seabirds and other marine wildlife. — Brandi D. Addison, USA Today, 2 July 2026

In the case of massive grid sabotage, AI could compound the chaos and lead to a starvation of city-dwellers unthinkable in modern times. — Simon Sebag Montefiore, The Atlantic, 28 June 2026