Staved vs Starved - What's the difference?

staved | starved |

As verbs the difference between staved and starved

is that staved is (stave) while starved is (starve).

As an adjective starved is

approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.

staved

English

Verb

(head)

(stave)

stave

English

Noun

(en noun)

One of a number of narrow strips of wood, or narrow iron plates, placed edge to edge to form the sides, covering, or lining of a vessel or structure; especially, one of the strips which form the sides of a cask, a pail, etc.

One of the bars or rounds of a rack, rungs of a ladder, etc; one of the cylindrical bars of a lantern wheel

(poetry) A metrical portion; a stanza; a staff.

* Wordsworth

Let us chant a passing stave / In honour of that hero brave.

(label) The five horizontal and parallel lines on and between which musical notes are written or pointed; the staff.

A staff or walking stick.

Verb

To break in the staves of; to break a hole in; to burst. Often with in .

to stave in a cask

* 1851 ,

Be careful in the hunt, ye mates. Don’t stave the boats needlessly, ye harpooneers; good white cedar plank is raised full three per cent within the year.

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, year=1914 , year_published=2009 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Mucker , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=…for the jagged butt of the fallen mast was dashing against the ship's side with such vicious blows that it seemed but a matter of seconds ere it would stave a hole in her. }}

To push, as with a staff. With off .

* South

The condition of a servant staves him off to a distance.

To delay by force or craft; to drive away. Often with off .

to stave off the execution of a project

* Tennyson

And answered with such craft as women use, / Guilty or guilties, to stave off a chance / That breaks upon them perilously.

To burst in pieces by striking against something.

To walk or move rapidly.

To suffer, or cause, to be lost by breaking the cask.

* Sandys

All the wine in the city has been staved .

To furnish with staves or rundles.

(Knolles)

To render impervious or solid by driving with a calking iron.

to stave lead, or the joints of pipes into which lead has been run

Derived terms

* stave in * stave off

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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)