slovo | definícia |
starvation (encz) | starvation,hladovění n: Pavel Machek; Giza |
starvation (encz) | starvation,smrt hladem Zdeněk Brož |
starvation (encz) | starvation,vyhladovění n: Zdeněk Brož |
Starvation (gcide) | 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] |
starvation (wn) | starvation
n 1: a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential
nutrients over a prolonged period [syn: 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" [syn:
starvation, starving] |
| podobné slovo | definícia |
starvation (encz) | starvation,hladovění n: Pavel Machek; Gizastarvation,smrt hladem Zdeněk Brožstarvation,vyhladovění n: Zdeněk Brož |
starvation acidosis (encz) | starvation acidosis, n: |
the great starvation (encz) | the Great Starvation, n: |
starvation (wn) | starvation
n 1: a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential
nutrients over a prolonged period [syn: 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" [syn:
starvation, starving] |
starvation acidosis (wn) | starvation acidosis
n 1: acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food
which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic
ketone bodies |
the great starvation (wn) | the Great Starvation
n 1: a famine in Ireland resulting from a potato blight; between
1846 and 1851 a million people starved to death and 1.6
million emigrated (most to America) [syn: {the Irish
Famine}, the Great Hunger, the Great Starvation, {the
Great Calamity}] |
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