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The state of suffering, and possibly dying, from not having enough food for a very long time. This is a heavy, serious word — used for real hunger crises like famine or war, not for a student joking about being hungry before lunch.
飢餓、餓死的狀態（語氣較重，不是普通的肚子餓）
組成starve + -ation (noun ending, "the state or process of"). It names the ongoing, serious condition, not just the single act.
同家族的字
- starvestarvation is the serious, ongoing state that starving leads to
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
starvationnoun/stɑɹˈveɪʃən/
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A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.
- "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.
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Severe shortage of resources.
- 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.
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computercomputingengineeringA state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.
- Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。