Meanings
adjectivestarved (comparative more starved, superlative most starved)
comparative more starved · superlative most starved
- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- broadlyDeprived of nourishment or of something vital.
Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F3, recto - colloquialemphaticexcessiveExtremely hungry.
I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
1 more example
She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46
verb
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of starve
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivesuffering from lack of food
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Translations
Dutch uitgehongerd
- uitgehongerdextremely hungry
Esperanto malsateginta
- malsategintaapproaching starvation
Māori makuhea
- makuheaapproaching starvation
Spanish hambreado, hambreado
- hambreadoapproaching starvation
- hambreadoextremely hungry
Swedish utsvulten
- utsvultenextremely hungry
Rhymes & wordplay
Rhymes with starved
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