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"the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender" "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"nounthe act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
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nouna state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
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- famine a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
- hypokalemia abnormally low level of potassium in the circulating blood leading to weakness and heart abnormalities; associated with adrenal tumors or starvation or taking diuretics
- maceration extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- ketoaciduria excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation
- acetonuria excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation
- bonyness extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- boniness extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- ketonuria excessive amounts of ketone bodies in the urine as in diabetes mellitus or starvation
- gauntness extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)
- emaciation extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease)