starvation

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /stɑːˈveɪʃən/    美 /stɑɹˈveɪʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition. countable,uncountable
    — "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?"
  2. Severe shortage of resources. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — Fuel starvation has several causes.
  3. A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work. countable,uncountable
    — Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.

词形变化

starvations plural

词汇关系

衍生词
antistarvation mass starvation overstarvation prestarvation rabbit starvation semistarvation starvational starvation marrow starvation wage

词源

Etymology tree
English starve
Proto-Indo-European *-tis
Proto-Indo-European *-Hō
Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō
Proto-Italic *-tiō
Latin -tiō
Latin -ātiōlbor.
Old French -ationbor.
Middle English -acioun
English -ation
English starvation
From starve + -ation.
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