Meaning of Starvation | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
   countable, uncountable
2. Severe shortage of resources.
   countable, figuratively, uncountable
3. A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“"We haven't one chance for life in a hundred thousand if we don't find food and water upon Caprona. This water coming out of the cliff is not salt; but neither is it fit to drink, though each of us has drunk. It is fair to assume that inland the river is fed by pure streams, that there are fruits and herbs and game. Shall we lie out here and die of thirst and starvation with a land of plenty possibly only a few hundred yards away? We have the means for navigating a subterranean river. Are we too cowardly to utilize this means?"”

“Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu’s orders to resume delivery of food aid, an abrupt about-face under intense U.S. and international pressure, came as warnings of mass starvation intensify, including from within Israel’s own security establishment.”

“Fuel starvation has several causes.”

“However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.”

“Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.”

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