starved
IPA: stˈɑrvd
adjective
- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- (by extension) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
- (colloquial, hyperbolic, emphatic) Extremely hungry.
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Examples of "starved" in Sentences
- But I think the term starved for attention is accurate.
- The Japanese confiscated the grain and rice and the population starved.
- The Rangers ask Matt Harrison, a 26-year-old with less of a household name to bring it home for the title starved Rangers.
- If I could have painted a picture for half a guinea by which they could have made twenty whilst I starved, _I could have starved_.
- When the Kulaks resisted giving up their land and their property to be redistributed to "the people", Stalin starved and then slaughtered them by the millions.
- When he penned these lines, he had recently emerged half-starved from a nine-year period of incarceration in a lunatic asylum, having been subjected to more than 60 electro-shock treatments.
- That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
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