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Starved

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Adjective

1. starved, starving

suffering from lack of food

2. esurient, famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved

extremely hungry

Example Sentences:
'they were tired and famished for food and sleep'
'a ravenous boy'
'the family was starved and ragged'
'fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Starved

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verb
1. 
to die or cause to die from lack of food
2. 
to deprive (a person or animal) or (of a person, etc) to be deprived of food
3. (intransitive) informal
to be very hungry
4. (foll by of or for)
to deprive or be deprived (of something necessary), esp so as to cause suffering or malfunctioning
the engine was starved of fuel
5. (transitive; foll by into)
to bring (to) a specified condition by starving
to starve someone into submission
6. archaic
to be or cause to be extremely cold

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Starved

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verb intransitiveWord forms: starved or ˈstarving
1. 
a. 
to die from lack of food
b. 
to suffer or become weak from hunger
c.  Informal
to be ravenously hungry
2. 
to suffer great need
with for
starving for affection
3.  Dialectal
to suffer and die slowly from any cause, esp. from extreme cold
verb transitive
4. 
to cause to starve by depriving of food
5. 
to force by starvation
to starve an enemy into submission
6. 
to cause to suffer from a lack or need of something specified
7.  Dialectal
to cause to die from extreme cold

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Starved

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v. starved, starv·ing, starves
v.intr.
1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
2. Informal To be hungry.
3. To suffer from deprivation: a puppy starving for attention.
4. Archaic To suffer or die from cold.
v.tr.
1. To cause to starve.
2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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