(n.) The act of starving, or the state of being starved.

Lenten Spartan absence abstemious abstinence from food ascetic asphyxiation austere beggary choke choking defectiveness deficiency deficit deprivation destitution drought drowning dwarfed dwarfish exiguous famine fasting frugal imperfection impoverished impoverishment incompleteness jejune killing lack lean limited liver death meager mean megadeath miserly narrow need omission paltry parsimonious poor punishment of Tantalus puny restriction of intake scant scanty scrawny scrimp scrimpy serum death shortage shortcoming shortfall skimp skimpy slender slight slim small smotheration smothering spare sparing stingy stinted straitened strangling strangulation stunted subsistence suffocation thin unnourishing unnutritious violent death want wantage watered watery watery grave