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Starved   /stɑrvd/   Listen
Starved

adjective
1.
Suffering from lack of food.  Synonym: starving.
2.
Extremely hungry.  Synonyms: esurient, famished, ravenous, sharp-set.  "A ravenous boy" , "The family was starved and ragged" , "Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"


Starve

verb
(past & past part. starved; pres. part. starving)
1.
Be hungry; go without food.  Synonyms: famish, hunger.
2.
Die of food deprivation.  Synonym: famish.  "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
3.
Deprive of food.  Synonym: famish.
4.
Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.  Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst.
5.
Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering.  "The engine was starved of fuel"



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"Starved" Quotes from Famous Books



... wasted no more time in talk, for we were half starved. The stuff was not bad; to us who had been fasting for something like thirty-six hours—for our idea of time was extremely hazy—it was a gorgeous banquet. And close by there was ...
— Under the Andes • Rex Stout
... the thorn-trees, whose gaunt branches tossed Their spider-shadows round her; and the breeze, Beneath the ashen moon, was full of frost, And mouthed and mumbled to the sickly trees, Like some starved hag who sees ...
— Poems • Madison Cawein
... VERY hungry!" Phil announced with mournful emphasis. "It makes me starved to play this kind of game in the middle of the night. Can't we have some food, to celebrate ...
— Hildegarde's Neighbors • Laura E. Richards
... supper first. Madame Gobillot, I beseech you, give me something to eat. Thanks to your mountain air, I am almost starved." ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... fingers and the heaving of her bosom lent his hope conviction. "Mescal," he went on, "these past months have been years, years of toiling, thinking, changing, but always loving. I'm not the man you knew. I'm wild— I'm starved for a sight of you. I love you! Mescal, ...
— The Heritage of the Desert • Zane Grey


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