Starvation

(n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

Thesaurus Entries

Lenten, Spartan, absence, abstemious, abstinence from food, ascetic, asphyxiation, austere, beggary, choke, choking, defectiveness, deficiency, deficit, deprivation, destitution, drought, drowning, dwarfed, dwarfish, exiguous, famine, fasting, frugal, imperfection, impoverished, impoverishment, incompleteness, jejune, killing, lack, lean, limited, liver death, meager, mean, megadeath, miserly, narrow, need, niggardly, omission, paltry, parsimonious, poor, punishment of Tantalus, puny, restriction of intake, scant, scanty, scrawny, scrimp, scrimpy, serum death, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, skimp, skimpy, slender, slight, slim, small, smotheration, smothering, spare, sparing, stingy, stinted, straitened, strangling, strangulation, stunted, subsistence, suffocation, thin, unnourishing, unnutritious, violent death, want, wantage, watered, watery, watery grave