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Starved vs Staring - What's the difference?

starved | staring |

As verbs the difference between starved and staring

is that starved is past tense of starve while staring is present participle of lang=en.

As an adjective starved

is approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

As a noun staring is

the act of one who stares.

starved

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
  • (colloquial) Extremely hungry.
    • I'm starved , I haven't eaten since breakfast.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (starve)

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    staring

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of one who stares.
  • * (Herman Melville), Pierre
    • Then the bewilderingness of the old starings of the solitary old man and old woman, by the cracked hearth-stone of the desolate old house, in the desolate, round, open space

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