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starvation 音标拼音: [stɑrv'eʃən] n. 饥饿,饿死 饥饿,饿死 starvation n 1: a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period [ synonym: { starvation}, { famishment}] 2: the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; " the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; " they were charged with the starvation of children in their care" [ synonym: { starvation}, { starving}] Starvation \ Star* va" tion\ ( st[ aum] r* v[= a]" sh[ u^] n), n. The act of starving, or the state of being starved. [ 1913 Webster] Note: This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation Dundas. " Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of ' vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of mongrels, and as if it would not be in distressing straits without them." -- Fitzed. Hall. [ 1913 Webster] 84 Moby Thesaurus words for " starvation": 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
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- 8 dead after Air Force B-52 bomber crashes shortly after takeoff in . . .
An Air Force B-52 Stratofortress bomber crashed shortly after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base in California on Monday, the base said
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The U S Air Force says eight people aboard a B-52 bomber that crashed shortly after takeoff at a military base in Southern California’s Mojave Desert are dead
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- B-52 bomber crashes after takeoff at Edwards Air Force Base | Fox News
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- B-52 Stratofortress crashes after takeoff at California air base
The aircraft crashed shortly after its takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base on Monday, the service announced
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- B-52 Stratofortress crashes after takeoff at Edwards Air Force base in . . .
A U S Air Force B-52 Stratofortress crashed shortly after taking off from Edwards Air Force Base on Monday The bomber went down on the Edwards airfield at 11:20 a m , according to base
- B-52 bomber crashes shortly after takeoff at California’s Edwards Air . . .
Eight crew members are dead in a B-52 bomber crash shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base, northeast of Los Angeles, on Monday morning, the base said
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The aircraft burst into flames on Monday morning shortly after takeoff from Edwards Air Force Base in California, officials said The cause is still under investigation
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Eight people are presumed dead after a B-52 bomber crashed shortly after takeoff on Monday morning at a US air force base in California ’s Mojave Desert, officials said
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