Definitions
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- verb Present participle of
starve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering from lack of food
- noun the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine
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Examples
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Some artists may recoil at the notion of selling their work, but it’s the best way to lose the label starving artist.
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Some artists may recoil at the notion of selling their work, but it’s the best way to lose the label starving artist.
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Some artists may recoil at the notion of selling their work, but it’s the best way to lose the label starving artist.
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That Bears are starving is the result of human migration into their natural habitat.
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That Bears are starving is the result of human migration into their natural habitat.
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The prospect of starving is a stick, whichever way you look at it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Competing Explanations for the Oppressive Nature of Socialism
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He fed the starving from a soup kitchen during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s and, a decade later, revamped army food in the Crimean War.
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Nearly 12 percent of children whose growth and weight were already seriously stunted due to chronic hunger were seen to drop weight and muscle tissue so rapidly they were classified as starving.
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Nearly 12 percent of children whose growth and weight were already seriously stunted due to chronic hunger were seen to drop weight and muscle tissue so rapidly they were classified as starving.
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Because if I do not write, I starve, after all, and starving is not very much fun.
chained_bear commented on the word starving
With a bit of exaggeration, this is what I am right now.
October 14, 2008
reesetee commented on the word starving
Here. Have a celery stalk.
*crunch crunch crunch*
October 15, 2008
bilby commented on the word starving
Mmmm, celery.
October 15, 2008