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Starring vs Starving - What's the difference?

starring | starving |

As verbs the difference between starring and starving

is that starring is while starving is .

As nouns the difference between starring and starving

is that starring is the action of the verb to star while starving is starvation.

As an adjective starring

is of, relating to, or in the manner of a star.

starring

English

Adjective

(-)
  • of, relating to, or in the manner of a star
    • Charlton Heston had a starring role in Ben-Hur.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (with a film as its subject ) That which has the specified actor or actors, especially those in lead roles, in its cast.
    • Ben-Hur, starring Charlton Heston

    Synonyms

    * (having actors in its cast''): featuring (''often used for actors other than those in the lead roles )

    Noun

    (-)
  • The action of the verb to star .

    • starving

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Joseph Stiglitz)
    • , volume=188, issue=26, page=19, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Globalisation is about taxes too , passage=It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.}}

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • starvation
  • * 1868 , Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre