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Word entry · 10 letters

starvation

Best crossword clue

"Extreme hunger"

10 letters · collected on this word page

10 lettersPronunciation /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/Part of speech nounSorted aainorsttvStarts with SEnds with N1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2T3A4R5V6A7T8I9O10N

Definitions

  1. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine

Word origin

From starve + -ation.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.
  • Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.

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