English-Thai Dictionary

starvation

N การ อดอาหาร  kan-aod-ar-han

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

STARVATION

STARVATION Star *va "tion, n.

 

Defn: The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

 

Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. "Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of 'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them. " Fitzed. Hall.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

starvation

star va tion |stärˈvāSHən stɑːrˈveɪʃn | ▶noun suffering or death caused by hunger: thousands died of starvation.

 

starvation wages

star |va ¦tion wages ▶plural noun wages which are below the level necessary for subsistence.

 

Oxford Dictionary

starvation

star |va ¦tion |stɑːˈveɪʃn | ▶noun [ mass noun ] suffering or death caused by lack of food: thousands died of starvation.

 

starvation wages

star |va ¦tion wages ▶plural noun wages which are below the level necessary for subsistence.

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

starvation

starvation noun half of the people here face starvation: extreme hunger, lack of food, famine, undernourishment, malnourishment, fasting; deprivation of food; death from lack of food.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

starvation

starvation noun half of the country's people face starvation as a result of the civil war: extreme hunger, lack of food, famine, want, undernourishment, malnourishment, fasting; deprivation of food; death from lack of food.

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

starvation

star va tion /stɑː r véɪʃ (ə )n /→starve 名詞 U 1 飢餓 , 餓死 ▸ die of starvation 餓死する 2 ｟くだけて ｠〖形容詞的に 〗飢餓を生じさせるような ▸ starvation diet 断食ダイエット ▸ starvation wages 飢餓賃金 〘まともな生活ができない低賃金 〙