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starve

verb as in fast

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However, Ava-Lea had been starved of oxygen as a result of breathing in meconium and died on 29 August, aged just 35 hours, the law firm said.

From BBC

The other fragrance is called Rozana, after a ship that was feverishly anticipated by people starving across Palestine, Lebanon and Syria after failed wheat harvests 100 years ago.

From BBC

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows.

While the damage was done for species like bison, which were often exterminated to starve Indigenous people, these laws helped wild turkeys bounce back across the country.

From Salon

As part of the therapy, now discredited, injections of insulin would plunge a patient into deep coma as the brain was starved of sugar.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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