starving

Pluralstarvings

1. 1
   adjective

   Feeling very hungry, often so hungry that you need to eat soon.

   Like an empty fuel tank that badly needs to be filled.

   I'm starving. Can we eat now?

   The kids came home from school absolutely starving.

   Similarravenous

   Oppositefull, stuffed, sated

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2. 2
   verb

   The -ing form of starve. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.

   The lost hikers were starving by the third day.

   Animals in the drought were slowly starving.

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The state of suffering badly from not having enough food.

   Nobody in the village ever forgot the starving of that long, hard winter.

   The prisoners lived through months of beatings and starvings before they were set free.

   Similarstarvation, hunger, famine

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