starving
adjective
[ ˈstɑːvɪŋ ]
• suffering or dying from hunger.
• "the world's starving children"
Similar:
dying of hunger,
dying from lack of food,
faint from lack of food,
deprived of food,
undernourished,
malnourished,
starved,
half-starved,
unfed,
very hungry,
ravenous,
famished,
empty,
hollow,
fasting,
be hungry,
could eat a horse,
starve
verb
• suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
• "she left her animals to starve"
• be freezing cold.
• "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"
Origin:
Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben .
