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Definition of Starved
1. Adjective. Suffering from lack of food.
2. Adjective. Extremely hungry. "Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
Similar to: Hungry
Derivative terms: Esurience, Ravenousness
Definition of Starved
1. Adjective. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished. ¹
2. Adjective. (colloquial) Extremely hungry. ¹
3. Verb. (past of starve). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starved
1. starve [v] - See also: starve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starved
Literary usage of Starved
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Strike of Millionaires Against Miners: Or, The Story of Spring Valley. An by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1890)
"Like one of the mediaeval castles which of old threatened but now adorn the lochs
of Scotland, starved Rock once pushed forth from all surroundings, ..."
2. Literature in Letters, Or, Manners, Art, Criticism, Biography, History, and by James Philemon Holcombe (1866)
"Sydney Smith to Lord Murray—A Hundred Persons starved by his Voracity LL—A ...
It occurred to me that I must, by my voracity, have starved to death fully a ..."
3. Hunger by Knut Hamsun (1920)
"IT was during the time I wandered about and starved in Christiania: Christiania,
this singular city, from which no man departs without carrying away the ..."
4. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Jesuits, Reuben Gold Thwaites (1901)
"Utah (state), snowshoes of Indians in, 5, 285. Utes, western tribe : included in
Paduca family, 68, 329. Utica (Ш.), site of starved Rock near, 57, 316. ..."
5. The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, Richard Alexander Streatfeild (1916)
"Unless for short times under exceptional circumstances, he should not even see
things that have been stunted or starved, much less should he eat meat that ..."
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