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starve
/stɑːv/ verb [I, T]Definition
› to become ill or die because you do not have enough food, or to make someone ill or die because they do not have enough food: Many people have starved to death in parts of Africa.
starvation
/stɑːˈveɪʃən/ noun [U] › Children were dying of starvation.(Definition of starve verb from the Cambridge Learner's Dictionary
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