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  • starving — / starved [adj] deprived of food could eat a horse*, craving, dehydrated, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peckish, perishing, pinched, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed,… …   New thesaurus

  • starving — UK [ˈstɑː(r)vɪŋ] / US [ˈstɑrvɪŋ] adjective 1) a) ill or dying because of a lack of food starving children b) informal very hungry 2) prevented from having enough of what you need starving for: They talked as if they were starving for conversation …   English dictionary

  • Starving — Starve Starve (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved} (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • starving — starv|ing [ starvıŋ ] adjective sick or dying because of a lack of food: starving children a. INFORMAL very hungry starving actor/artist/writer someone who does not have much money because they choose to spend their time on their art rather than… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • starving — [[t]stɑ͟ː(r)vɪŋ[/t]] ADJ: v link ADJ If you say that you are starving, you mean that you are very hungry. [INFORMAL] Apart from anything else I was starving. Syn: ravenous …   English dictionary

  • starving — /ˈstavɪŋ/ (say stahving) verb 1. present participle of starve. –adjective 2. Colloquial extremely hungry. –phrase Colloquial 3. starving hungry, extremely hungry. 4. starving to death, extremely hungry. –starvingly …  

  • starving — adj. Starving is used with these nouns: ↑child …   Collocations dictionary

  • starving — adjective the world s starving children Syn: dying of hunger, deprived of food, undernourished, malnourished, starved, half starved; very hungry, ravenous, famished, empty, hollow; fasting Ant: full …   Thesaurus of popular words

  • Starving artist — A starving artist is an artist who sacrifices material well being in order to focus on their artwork. They typically live on minimum expenses, either for a lack of business or because all their disposable income goes towards art projects. Some… …   Wikipedia

  • Starving the Vultures — Infobox Album | Name = Starving the Vultures Type = studio Artist = Circle of Dead Children Released = 1999 Recorded = 1999 Genre = Deathgrind Length = 24:18 Label = Willowtip Records Producer = Circle of Dead Children Reviews = Last album =… …   Wikipedia

  • Starving Time (Jamestown) — The Starving Time at Jamestown in the English Colony of Virginia killed all but 60 of 500 colonists during the winter of 1609–1610. The colonists, the first group of whom had originally arrived at Jamestown on May 14, 1607, had never planned to… …   Wikipedia

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