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starved

adjectiveverbcommon in dialogue

Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

adjective

  1. 1

    Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

  2. 2

    Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.

    Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.

  3. 3

    Extremely hungry.

    I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.

    She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of starvesimple past and past participle of starve

Forms

comparative
more starved
superlative
most starved
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).