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  2. Feed a cold, starve a fever - Wikipedia

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    "Feed a cold, starve a fever" is an adage or a wives' tale which attempts to instruct people how to deal with illness. The adage dates to the time of Hippocrates when fever was not well understood. His idea was the fever was the disease, and starving the sick person would starve the disease.

  3. Starvation (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Starvation (crime), a crime under international law Starvation (computer science), a problem encountered in concurrent computing where a process is perpetually denied necessary resources to process its work

  4. Wikipedia : List of Wiktionaries

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    Wiktionary is a free multilingual open-source wiki-based online dictionary. As of December 2024, Wiktionary articles have been created in 195 editions, with 171 currently active and 24 closed. [1] This is a table of detailed statistics of Wiktionaries.

  5. Wiktionary - Wikipedia

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    Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

  6. Starvation - Wikipedia

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    Supporting farmers in areas of food insecurity through such measures as free or subsidized fertilizers and seeds increases food harvest and reduces food prices. [21] Starvation is commonly used as a method of warfare, however, it has been outlawed and is now a crime. Notable incidents in history include the blockade of Germany and blockade of ...

  7. The Free Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The Free Library has a separate homepage. It is a free reference website that offers full-text versions of classic literary works by hundreds of authors. It is also a news aggregator, offering articles from a large collection of periodicals containing over four million articles dating back to 1984. Newly published articles are added to the site ...

  8. Don't Starve - Wikipedia

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    Cosplay of Wilson at Pyrkon 2017. Wilson, a gentleman scientist, is the everyman protagonist of Don't Starve.While Wilson has no special abilities beyond growth of "a magnificent beard", [13] which slows the speed of freezing in winter and accelerates overheating in summer, other playable characters do: Willow, a firestarter, spawns into the world with a unique lighter which acts as a better ...

  9. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Online dictionary. The free version has over 300,000 Finnish words and the Pro version has over 800,000 Finnish words. The dictionary has agglomerated other dictionaries, such as technical ones, [10] and the largest set comes from Wordnet. [11] This dictionary essentially does not include inflections. English: 795,606