飢民

きみん

starving people

飢渇

きかつ

hunger and thirst, starvation

飢饉

ききん

famine, drought, shortage, crop failure

飢餓

きが

starvation, famine, hunger

飢え

うえ

hunger, starvation

飢寒

きかん

hunger and cold

飢凍

きとう

starving and freezing to death

飢える

うえる かつえる

to starve, to thirst, to be hungry

大飢饉

だいききん

severe famine

水飢饉

みずききん

drought, water shortage

飢餓感

きがかん

(feeling of) hunger

飢餓療法

きがりょうほう

inaniation treatment, starvation therapy

飢え死に

うえじに かつえじに

(death from) starvation, starving to death

豊作飢饉

ほうさくききん

impoverishment of farmers because of a bumper harvest, decline in farmers' income caused by the sharply lower farm prices as a result of bumper harvests

愛に飢える

あいにうえる

to hunger for love, to starve for love

飢え凍える

うえこごえる

to starve and freeze to death

天明の飢饉

てんめいのききん

Tenmei famine (1782-1787); Temmei famine

血に飢える

ちにうえる

to be bloodthirsty

享保の飢饉

きょうほうのききん

Kyōhō famine (1732)

飢餓線上に

きがせんじょうに

on the verge of starvation, at the point of starving