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Starving vs Underfed - What's the difference?

starving | underfed | Related terms |

As verbs the difference between starving and underfed

is that starving is present participle of lang=en while underfed is past tense of underfeed.

As a noun starving

is starvation.

As an adjective underfed is

inadequately fed.

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

    • underfed

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Inadequately fed.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (underfeed)

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