Starve vs Hangry - What's the difference?
starve | hangry |
(obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
* 1596 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , IV.i.4:
To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
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To be very hungry.
To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
To deprive of nourishment.
(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
(label) Hungry and angry, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.
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As a verb starve
is (obsolete) to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.As an adjective hangry is
(label) hungry and angry, especially when the anger is induced by the hunger.starve
English
(wikipedia starve)Verb
- noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to sterue , / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
- Hey, ma, I'm starving !
- They starved the child until it withered away.
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
