starved en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /stɑːɹvd/
- (Southern-England) audio
Meanings
- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
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(broadly) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.
c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F3, recto:
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(colloquial, emphatic, excessive) Extremely hungry.
She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.
1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more starved | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most starved | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Deriveds
starvedly · nonstarved · semistarved · prestarved · unstarved
Translations (7)
nl uitgehongerd (extremely hungry) · mi makuhea (approaching starvation) · es hambreado (approaching starvation) · es hambreado (extremely hungry) · eo malsateginta (approaching starvation) · tpi hanggre (extremely hungry) · sv utsvulten (extremely hungry)