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starvation

noun

Synonyms and 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.

Synonyms and Near Synonyms of starvation

malnutrition, undernourishment

appetite, belly, emptiness, famishment, hunger, munchies, stomach

rapaciousness, rapacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity

craving, sweet tooth

famine, fast, hunger strike

gluttony, gourmandism, greed, hoggishness

Antonyms and Near Antonyms of starvation

fill, fullness, glut, repleteness, repletion, satiation, satiety, satisfaction, surfeit

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