"endure starvation" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
It means to suffer from lack of food or extreme hunger over a period of time. Example: During the famine, many people had to endure starvation for weeks before help arrived.
Moorehead meticulously traces their fates through a two-and-a-half-year ordeal, as they endured starvation, disease, physical abuse and exposure.
While that column proceeded without issue, Bonaparte's column was harassed by Bedouins and endured starvation; the men subsisted largely on grain cakes and watermelon.
For example, studies of the children and grandchildren of pregnant women who endured starvation in the second world war and in China in the 50s have revealed they tended to be smaller and more prone to diabetes and psychosis.
Having recently endured starvation and battered toes in the service of her art, Natalie Portman now encounters another of the ordeals laid out for ambitious young actresses who want to be movie stars.
Her children endured starvation and disease while she sought asylum from the country that beat and jailed her for political organizing.
At least 147 people were set adrift on a hurriedly constructed raft; all but 15 died in the 13 days before their rescue, and those who survived endured starvation and dehydration and practiced cannibalism.
Thousands of domestic workers in Saudi Arabia endure beatings, starvation and other abuses, a Human Rights Watch report said.
Dr. King trained his followers in the path of nonviolent resistance to endure jail, starvation, beatings, and even death without complaint or retaliation.
The reader is encouraged to see the stuffed animals Beatrice and Virgil — who have endured torture, starvation and humiliation — as stand-ins for the Jews, and to equate the terrible things they've witnessed — referred to as "the Horrors" — to the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
