Ravenous vs Starve - What's the difference?
ravenous | starve |
Very hungry.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (rfc-sense) Eager for prey or gratification.
* 1843 , (Thomas Carlyle), '', book 3, ch. IX, ''Working Aristocracy
(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.
As an adjective ravenous
is very hungry.As a verb starve is
(obsolete) to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.ravenous
English
Adjective
(en adjective)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite. There is something humiliating about it.}}
- Supply-and-demand? One begins to be weary of such work. Leave all to egoism, to ravenous greed of money, of pleasure, of applause: — it is the Gospel of Despair!
Synonyms
* starving (qualifier) * See alsoSee also
* voraciousstarve
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.