starved
Meaning of starved
verb
- To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
- To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- To be very hungry.
Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
- To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
- To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
- To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- (by extension) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
- Extremely hungry.
I'm starved! I haven't eaten since breakfast.
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Hyphenation of starved
starved
- It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
- starved is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable
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