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

But all of the effort is ultimately in vain, as every worker wasp will eventually perish from starvation or cold weather. — Caden Perry, jsonline.com, 10 Sep. 2026

That means making sure humanitarian groups can get into conflict zones, protecting agricultural infrastructure from attacks, and prohibiting the use of starvation as a weapon of war. — Anna Nelson, Foreign Affairs, 4 Sep. 2026

Penn State researchers developed a wearable sensor that continuously monitors low rates of perspiration for lactate, a biomarker that can indicate oxygen starvation in tissues. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2026

The death of the family members by thirst and starvation was definitely a possibility. — David Shulman, The New York Review of Books, 26 Aug. 2026