Converse of object

• face: With people facing absolute starvation, they decided to close the soup kitchens they had opened two years earlier.

• prevent: To prevent fuel starvation at high rpm it is advisable to fit a fast flow fuel tap or have yours modified.

• suffer: Refusing food and shelter, and forcing people to suffer starvation is as bad as killing people with bullets in a dictator's regime.

• avoid: However, to avoid writer starvation, the Solaris threads package tends to favor writers over readers.

• cause: They have faced early death from illness and starvation caused by war.

Adjective modifier

• imminent: A regional famine early warning unit reports that up to 3.3 million need food relief with 380,000 facing imminent starvation.

• mass: The World Food Program is warning of imminent danger of mass starvation.

• widespread: What is needed is secure, sustained access on the ground if widespread starvation is to be avoided.

• actual: It was immediately faced with the acute danger of actual starvation.

• slow: Living as one of the poor, London witnessed the squalor, degradation and slow starvation of the area.

Modifies a noun

• ration: The detainees were fed starvation rations once a day, with little time to eat.

• wage: They have no money for their transportation, for they are receiving starvation wages or no wages, at all.

• diet: Of course, her starvation diet could cause it too.

• mode: Each time you go on a diet, your protective mechanism goes a little deeper into the starvation mode.

• death: Reports of starvation deaths are coming in from all over the country.

Noun used with modifier

• oxygen: Whatever the cause, some brain cells die from oxygen starvation.

• fuel: The cause of the failure was discovered to be fuel starvation.

• mass: Without them, there will be a time when nothing will stand between humanity and mass starvation.

• face: They also often lack proper nutrition, and many even face starvation.