starvation

Severe suffering or death caused by not having enough food.

• The animals were close to starvation.
• Food deliveries saved many families from starvation.
• Several people died of starvation during the drought.

How to use it: die of starvation (The animals could die of starvation.)

Similar words: extreme hunger

Common phrases: die of starvation, face starvation, prevent starvation

A serious lack of something needed to keep a system or activity working.

• The engine stopped because of fuel starvation.
• The cells showed signs of oxygen starvation.
• Resource starvation left the organization unable to provide basic services.

Similar words: deprivation, severe shortage

Common phrases: oxygen starvation, fuel starvation, resource starvation

A situation where a computer process keeps being denied the resources it needs to run.

• The waiting thread suffered starvation.
• A fair scheduler can prevent process starvation.
• Low-priority tasks face starvation when new high-priority tasks keep arriving.

Common phrases: thread starvation, process starvation, prevent starvation