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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

... wilderness, the fences will rot and fall down, and the rabbits and kangaroos will overrun them again, because the men who were developing them are gone and there are none to take their places. Never was there a country so starved for men, and sixty thousand are gone forever or maimed for life. Tell me, where are we going to replace these men? No country in the world could so ill afford to lose its young men, the future fathers of the race, for we have still our pioneering to do, a continent larger than the ...

— "Over There" with the Australians • R. Hugh Knyvett

... all look as if they had good fellowship with each other perpetually; but the great, blank, bare sea, looks for ever alone; and sometimes the waves seem to me to run up on the shore as fiercely as starved ...

— Hetty's Strange History • Anonymous

... wake him up first!" cried Phoebe. "Let's have breakfast—we can have it in the kitchen—an' then you can douse him afterward. Just think of the wipin' an' cleanin' we'll have to do after it. We'll be starved if we wait breakfast for all ...

— The Panchronicon • Harold Steele Mackaye

... spend it in 7 weeks and a Day which was 6 Days sooner than we had intended. As soon as we had thus happily disencumbered ourselves from the weight of so much money, we began to think of returning to our Mothers, but accidentally hearing that they were both starved to Death, we gave over the design and determined to engage ourselves to some strolling Company of Players, as we had always a turn for the Stage. Accordingly we offered our services to one and were accepted; our Company was indeed rather small, as it consisted only of the Manager his ...

— Persuasion • Jane Austen

... took up his vigil outside the door. And, as he stood there, he thought of what he had said to Sidney about the Street. It was a world of its own. Here in this very house were death and separation; Harriet's starved life; Christine and Palmer beginning a long and doubtful future together; himself, a ...

— K • Mary Roberts Rinehart

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