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STARVED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extremely hungry
Example:
fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy
Synonyms:
esurient; famished; ravenous; sharp-set; starved
Classified under:
Similar:
hungry (feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Suffering from lack of food
Synonyms:
starved; starving
Classified under:
Similar:
malnourished (not being provided with adequate nourishment)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb starve
Context examples:
If humanity had been wiped out, the gods would have starved.
(‘Trickster god’ used fake news in Babylonian Noah story, University of Cambridge)
“I can't,” I said; “I shall be starved.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A poor substitute for food was this hide, just as it had been stripped from the starved horses of the cattlemen six months back.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
He's been starved, and he shan't be baked now he's dead.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Ill armed and half starved, they were still desperate men, to whom danger had lost all fears: for what was death that they should shun it to cling to such a life as theirs?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A few of the boldest and wisest forsook the fires of the gods, which had now become a shambles, and fled into the forest, where, in the end, they starved to death or were eaten by wolves.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
It appears they were at their wits' end what to do, the stores being so low that we must have been starved into surrender long before help came.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
He had starved for love all his life.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
I was not beaten, or starved; but the wrong that was done to me had no intervals of relenting, and was done in a systematic, passionless manner.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
They found that starved worms exposed to a magnetic field that was oriented opposite to the local Earth’s magnetic field reversed their burrowing behavior; they migrated up, suggesting they sensed magnetic fields.
(Magnetic Field Sensor Unearthed in Worms, NIH)
