Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Without food; destitute of provisions; barren.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Without food; barren.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Lacking
food .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective being without food
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Examples
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It took every ounce of strength he had to go get those tennis shoes, put them on and leave the house foodless.
Irene Rubaum-Keller: Behavior Is Very Hard To Change Irene Rubaum-Keller 2011
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It took every ounce of strength he had to go get those tennis shoes, put them on and leave the house foodless.
Irene Rubaum-Keller: Behavior Is Very Hard To Change Irene Rubaum-Keller 2011
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She looked like the kind of person who'd lock a diabetic cat in a foodless bathroom.
Doggone Mark Meier 2011
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His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals.
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His most famous experiment showed that baby rhesus monkeys, raised alone or with same-age peers, preferred a foodless but fuzzy terrycloth surrogate “mother” over a wire-mesh version that freely dispensed meals.
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Lutz says he's willing to take his foodless streak until the 20th, but after six days, he is already feeling the effects.
California Congressional Challengers On Hunger Strike To Force Debate With Duncan Hunter 2010
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How about the host who can't purchase five bananas to get you through a foodless weekend?
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In any event, The Insufferables, without Rob's leadership and bowling skills, were soon trudging home, to reconstruct their camp, foodless, prideless, brainless, but at least they still have Bulbous and Voldepussy.
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In any event, The Insufferables, without Rob's leadership and bowling skills, were soon trudging home, to reconstruct their camp, foodless, prideless, brainless, but at least they still have Bulbous and Voldepussy.
Tallulah Morehead: Survivor: Heroes vs Villains : Shudder Island 2010
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How about the host who can't purchase five bananas to get you through a foodless weekend?
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