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Noun starvation has 2 senses
- starvation, famishment - a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
--1 is a kind of hunger, hungriness
- starvation, starving - the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the beseigers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
--2 is a kind of privation, deprivation
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