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Starving vs Wasted - What's the difference?

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Starving is a related term of wasted.


As verbs the difference between starving and wasted

is that starving is while wasted is (waste).

As a noun starving

is starvation.

As an adjective wasted is

not profitably used.

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
  • wasted

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not profitably used.
  • Ravaged or deteriorated.
  • Emaciated and haggard.
  • (slang) very drunk or stoned.
  • (medicine) low weight-for-height (for a person).
  • Verb

    (head)
  • (waste)
  • Anagrams

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