Starved vs Starve - What's the difference?
starved | starve |
Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
(colloquial) Extremely hungry.
(starve)
(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 verbs the difference between starved and starve
is that starved is (starve) while starve is (obsolete) to die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.As an adjective starved
is approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.starved
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- I'm starved , I haven't eaten since breakfast.
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*starve
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(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.