# starving

Pronunciation: US say "STAHR-ving" /ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/; UK say "STAH-ving" /ˈstɑːvɪŋ/

## Adjective

1. Extremely hungry; feeling an intense, pressing need to eat.
   - Simple: Feeling very hungry, often so hungry that you need to eat soon.
   - _By the end of the long meeting, everyone was starving._
   - _She felt starving after skipping both breakfast and lunch._

## Verb

2. Present participle of starve. — present participle and gerund of starve
   - Simple: The -ing form of starve. Use it after am, is, are, was or were, or to name the action.
   - _The besieged city was starving as its supplies ran out._
   - _He kept starving himself in pursuit of an unhealthy ideal._

## Noun

3. The condition of suffering or dying from a prolonged lack of food.
   - Simple: The state of suffering badly from not having enough food.
   - _Survivors of the camp testified about the beatings and starvings they had endured for years._
   - _Relief workers raced to prevent further starving among the refugees._

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