Lank vs Starved - What's the difference?
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Slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean.
* Meager and lank with fasting grown. - .
* Who would not choose ... to have rather a lank purse than an empty brain? - .
* Blacks in the fields, lank'' and stooped, their fingers spiderlike among the bolls of cotton. - 1985 , chapter 1.
(of hair) Straight and flat; thin and limp. (often associated with being greasy)
* Lank hair, long, thin hair. -
(obsolete) languid; drooping.
* Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. -
Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
(colloquial) Extremely hungry.
(starve)
As adjectives the difference between lank and starved
is that lank is slender or thin; not well filled out; not plump; shrunken; lean while starved is approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.As verbs the difference between lank and starved
is that lank is to become lank; to make lank while starved is past tense of starve.lank
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Anagrams
* ----starved
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(en adjective)- I'm starved , I haven't eaten since breakfast.