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Starving vs Haggard - What's the difference?

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Starving is a related term of haggard.


As nouns the difference between starving and haggard

is that starving is starvation while haggard is (dialect|isle of mann|ireland) a stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.

As a verb starving

is .

As an adjective haggard is

looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition.

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

    • haggard

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Looking exhausted, worried, or poor in condition
  • * Dryden
    • Staring his eyes, and haggard was his look.
    Pale and haggard faces.
    A gradual descent into a haggard and feeble state.
    The years of hardship made her look somewhat haggard .
  • Wild or untamed
    • a haggard or refractory hawk

    Derived terms

    * haggardly * haggardness

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialect, Isle of Mann, Ireland) A stackyard, an enclosure on a farm for stacking grain, hay, etc.
    • "He tuk a slew [swerve] round the haggard" [http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/fulltext/am1924/pt_s.htm]
  • (falconry) A hunting bird captured as an adult.
    • A "haggard" is a bird captured as an adult and therefore of unknown age; often, the law prohibits capturing birds of mating age. Falconry Pro
  • * 1599 ,
  • *:No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
  • *:I know her spirits are as coy and wild
  • *:As haggards of the rock.
  • (falconry) A young or untrained hawk or falcon.
  • (obsolete) A fierce, intractable creature.
  • * Shakespeare
    • I have loved this proud disdainful haggard .
  • (obsolete) A hag.
    • (Garth)

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