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• n  a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period
• n  the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
  the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender
  they were charged with the starvation of children in their care

• This year's harvest has also been disappointing, and experts now question whether man can prevent widespread starvation.
• Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes.
• There is nothing ennobling about death by starvation.

• famishment
• starving

News & Articles

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• Grand jury: Mendocino County jail food just fine
  Says complaints about starvation' diets unfounded The grand jury gave the Mendocino County Jail and the Juvenile Hall rave reviews on the nutrition it serves up to inmates in a report it recently released, titled "Inmate nutrition.
  June 14, 2013 - The Willits News
• Fort Sill Army private sentenced for child's death
  A US Army private has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the starvation death of his girlfriend's 10-year-old son at their home on the base.
  June 12, 2013 - KWTV News9
• 2 more years tacked on to Richmond father's sentence
  A Richmond man already serving prison time for the starvation death of his 3-month-old son will serve two additional years after pleading guilty but mentally ill Tuesday to three counts of neglect of a dependent relating to his other three children.
  June 11, 2013 - Palladium-Item

Quotes

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• Ban Ki-moon in Reuters
  We need not only short-term emergency measures to meet urgent critical needs and avert starvation in many regions across the world, but also a significant increase in long-term productivity in food grain production,Ban said.
• Morgan Tsvangirai in AFP
  We need to respond to this crisis with utmost urgency. It is therefore imperative that a government be formed in the next few days and begins to implement plans to insure that our people have food and do not die of starvation,Tsvangirai said...
• Cindy McCain in ABC News
  It's just a terrible group of people that rule the country, and the frightening part is that their own people are dying of disease and starvation and everything else and it doesn't matter,Cindy McCain said during a trip to Vietnam, where she...