Delusions would be normal after that battering, followed by days of near starvation.

After several months of near starvation, she suffered a physical breakdown.

During our week of near starvation, something peculiar had happened between Chris and me.

During the colony's early years, little food was produced, and the rations brought from England were soon consumed, leaving the colony in near starvation.

Buffet went from "near starvation" to living a fashionable Parisian life.

That patient couldn't have been more different from this one: homeless, an alcoholic and near starvation, he had almost died.

Piggot's wife, Eleanor, died from the effects of near starvation.

Some lay in the foetal grip of near starvation.

After four and a half years of near starvation, he had mastered his desire to eat.

Several of the 175 inmates said to remain there appeared to be near starvation.