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adjective
- 1. suffering or dying from hunger: "the world's starving children"
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STARVING definition: 1. dying because of not having enough food: 2. very hungry: 3. extremely cold: . Learn more.
1. a. : to perish from lack of food. b. : to suffer extreme hunger. 2. archaic : to die of cold. b. British : to suffer greatly from cold. 3. : to suffer or perish from deprivation. starved for affection. transitive verb. 1. a. : to kill with hunger. b. : to deprive of nourishment. c. : to cause to capitulate by or as if by depriving of nourishment
STARVING meaning: 1. dying because of not having enough food: 2. very hungry: 3. extremely cold: . Learn more.
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.
to ( cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: Whole communities starved to death during the long drought. From talking to former prisoners in the camps, an obvious conclusion is that they have been starved. Fewer examples. We can't stand by while millions of people starve.
1. dying of hunger. Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. 2. informal. very hungry; ravenous. Apart from anything else I was starving. I'm absolutely starving! Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers. Examples of 'starving' in a sentence. starving.
Definitions of starving. adjective. suffering from lack of food. synonyms: starved. malnourished. not being provided with adequate nourishment. noun. the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. synonyms: starvation.
