Word Finder - starving

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To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

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To be very hungry.

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Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?

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To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.

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To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

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The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.

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To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.

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(especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.

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I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

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Starvation

No. I'm starving right now.

Their men were practically starving, though their rearguard showed a brave front.

So it's you who's starving us to death!

You know, you're not exactly a starving artist.

They lived in very different circles, one surrounded by dukes and earls, the other by starving pamphleteers and indexmakers.

If you have no food and are starving, you might invade your neighbor and take his food.

If politicians are demonstrably good at one thing, it is getting elected, and people who are starving don't normally re-elect their representatives.

I’m starving! I haven’t eaten anything since breakfast.

Even so, it was as if a something had been lifted from her chest, allowing the flow of oxygen and blood to a starving brain.

You must be starving.

He must be starving.

No, he was starving.

He was starving, teased by the snack-sized drink he'd taken from Jessi.

Funds were immediately raised by sympathizers for alleviating the sufferings of the starving victims. At the same time an appeal, written by Tolstoy and some of his friends, requesting the help of public opinion in favour of the oppressed Doukhobors, was circulated in St Petersburg and sent to the emperor and higher government officials.

It was with the utmost difficulty that he could keep his army from starving.

The people were starving.

The death of Waldemar in 1293, the starving to death of Dukes Waldemar and Eric in 1318, the marriage and the deaths both of Charles IX.

She moved to the fridge and opened it, still starving.

The object of this is to prevent the plant from starving by the water applied all running off by way of the new soil, and not penetrating the original ball of earth.

These railways were built by the national government after the drought of 1877-1878 to give work to the starving refugees, and are now operated under leases.

It is a paradoxical fact, that the supply of the stomach even from the substance of the starving individual's body should tend to prolong life.

She wandered the mansion as she often did, restless and starving.

Was she destined to spend the rest of her life starving?

It was too fanciful to look so far ahead when he needed to determine how to prevent his people from starving.

I'm starving, and Rachel is almost ready for that taco seasoning.

He wiped his face and walked into the kitchen, starving.

But there can be little doubt that the population of England and Wales increased very slowly for centuries, owing largely to want of intercommunication, which led to famines, more or less severeit being a common occurrence that, while one county, with a good harvest, was enjoying abundance, the people of the adjoining one were starving.

This error they realized too late, and endeavoured by fixing the resurrection for another day to gather the clans, but blank despair had taken the place of hope and faith, and it was only as starving suppliants that the Amaxosa sought the British.

Anarchy and state interference having combined to check the trade in necessaries, the government undertook to feed the people, and spent huge sums, especially on bread for the starving inhabitants of Paris.

Turned on and starving, she gingerly crawled across the bed and settled beside him on her belly, pausing guiltily before lapping up the bubbles of blood.

By the end of April, over 1 million GBP of supplies had been air dropped to the starving refugees.

Special high fat diets can help to keep the body 's energy needs supplied whilst starving the tumor.

He has taken food from his starving babies to give to an idol that does not consume it.

Starving women, female athletes and anorexics with low fat stores experience secondary amenorrhea.

This is an edited extract from Starving Amidst Oceans of Energy by Silvia Hartmann, PhD.

They care about the starving millions in the Third World.

Get your finger out, we 're starving hungry here.

Despite nearly starving himself to the point of death neither of these helped him find the peace he desired.

No more will we periodically have pictures paraded across our television screens of starving fly covered children suckling up to their starving mothers.

In their dormitory we found chocolate, sausages, tins of sardines, and very comfortable beds, whilst the other prisoners were starving.

He used the rhetorical device pathos in his email campaign to plead for higher donations to support the starving kittens.

Still others say fasting is counterproductive, because you're starving your body and your body's natural reaction after the fast will be to gain weight as quickly as possible.

However, this has nothing to do with the acai fruit, but is a direct result of starving your body of essential nutrients.

So, when you don't sleep, you find yourself starving, desperately searching your refrigerator for food.

The amount of grain necessary to feed the animals could instead feed many of the starving people around the world.

Far from starving the beast, the Tories seem hesitant even to put it on a diet.

Firstly there is the occasion when Esau comes home from hunting starving hungry.

The most powerful thing the pro-GM lobby say is that GM is the only way to feed the starving.

Because the Kabul regime has so badly mismanaged the economy, the Afghan people are starving.

We have just mismanaged agricultural land to the extent that we are starving our own people.