State in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs.
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Examples for "starve"
Examples for "starve"
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Without Labor, Capital would starve; without Capital, Labor could live in luxury.
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Those sanctions aim to starve Iran of funds for developing nuclear weapons.
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Can the slow-growing, heavily indebted south starve its way back to health?
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As long as he kept his health he would never outright starve.
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We're not going to let them starve while that happens, Schumer said.
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In youth, lust; in full manhood, strife; and in old age, covetousness.
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Stories of lust abound in the Hebrew Scriptures; Genesis alone has five.
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Had she allowed herself to feel anything but lust these past years?
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He saw the blood-lust flame in the eyes which searched his face.
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This building was home to constant, regular acts of lust and desire.
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Government backbenchers have best access to local media who crave constituency announcements.
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He didn't crave power or aim to subject another group of unfortunates.
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However much my body might crave rest, my mind refused to unwind.
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Badgers, monkeys and felines all crave physical contact with others, he reports.
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How this club must crave securing him to a new long-term deal.
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A man had better sleep without his scalp, than famish in the midst of plenty.
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Here these children were now, famished in the middle of a war.
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Open gates enable provisions to reach the half-famished dwellers within the walls.
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You must be famished, Mr. Langenau; pray go immediately to the dining-room.
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Their bread shall feed our famishing country; their wool clothe its nakedness.
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The political crisis in neighbouring Mali has only compounded the hunger problem.
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The country is facing a hunger crisis but food aid still flows.
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Job losses had spread hunger into new areas in cities, Sooliman said.
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Cooperation satisfies a natural hunger for solidarity that makes all community possible.
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SHNSA provides a sustainable solution to combat hunger and poverty, she said.
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Values like hunger, desire, work rate, competing are hammered home every day.
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Senator John Kerry said, as hunger and disease threaten millions of victims.
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And it's being made worse by its solution to another problem: hunger.
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Reason for first visit: constant thirst and hunger paired with weight loss.
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It was a form of protection against the Psy hunger for power.
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One possibility, said Davy, is that water could squelch feelings of hunger.
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So far, there appears to be a real hunger for this information.
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May 13: Hundreds of students begin a hunger strike on Tiananmen Square.
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Millions of people died, most from hunger and disease rather than violence.
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Besides escaping hunger, this household needs the means to exploit economic opportunities.
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Cork have known longer famines but never have they shown greater hunger.
