starvation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A condition of severe suffering due to a lack of nutrition.

   “Meanwhile, Mr. Netanyahu’s orders to resume delivery of food aid, an abrupt about-face under intense U.S. and international pressure, came as warnings of mass starvation intensify, including from within Israel’s own security establishment.”

2. (countable, figuratively, uncountable)Severe shortage of resources.

   “Fuel starvation has several causes.”

   “However, if the ASE application is paged out because of memory starvation, the entire process is blocked and no useful work can be done until the required pages are brought into memory.”

3. (countable, uncountable)A state where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work.

   “Whenever multiple threads compete for a scarce resource, there is the danger of starvation, a situation in which the thread never gets the resource.”