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Synonyms & Antonyms of starvation
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.
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“Starvation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/starvation. Accessed 3 Aug. 2021.
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The first known use of starvation was in 1762
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