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Foodless

adjective
1.
Being without food.






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"Foodless" Quotes from Famous Books



... and soldierly pride grappled in unyielding effort and enmity. The middle of the woods became a neutral ground where the wounded of the different sallies lay groaning from pain and thirst. Small groups of British had dug themselves in among the Germans and, waterless, foodless, held out, conserving their ammunition or, when it was gone, waiting for the last effort ...
— My Second Year of the War • Frederick Palmer

... that was safe to enter, the wrecks piled in rubbish thirty feet in height, four thousand dead in the river beds, twenty thousand foodless but for Pittsburg bread rations, and a cold rain which continued unbroken ...
— A Story of the Red Cross - Glimpses of Field Work • Clara Barton

... occasionally visited by Europeans, are guarded by the cruel jealousy of its inhabitants; or, if that is overcome, advances to any very great distance from the coast are effectively impeded by natives still more savage, or by waterless and foodless deserts. ...
— Robert Kerr's General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 18 • William Stevenson



Words linked to "Foodless" :   malnourished



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