starvation : Idioms & Phrases
starvation acidosis
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noun acidosis in which the acidity results from lack of food which leads to fat catabolism which in turn releases acidic ketone bodies
WordNet
the great starvation
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noun 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)
the Great Hunger; the Irish Famine; the Great Calamity.
