Starved

Definition: Starved

Starved

Adjective

1. Suffering from lack of food.

2. Extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "starved" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Starved

Cold

Adjective: cold, cool; chill, chilly; icy; gelid, frigid, algid; fresh, keen, bleak, raw, inclement, bitter, biting, niveous, cutting, nipping, piercing, pinching; clay-cold; starved. (made cold); chilled to the bone, shivering. Verb: aguish, transi de froid; frostbitten, frost-bound, frost-nipped.

Fasting

Adjective: lenten, quadragesimal; unfed; starved;Verb: half-starved; fasting; Verb: hungry.

Insufficiency

Meager, poor, thin, scrimp, sparing, spare, stinted; starved, starving; halfstarved, famine-stricken, famished; jejune.

Narrowness Thinness

Emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed.

Crosswords: Starved

They starved you and my father with scraps from their table, killed you as scapegoats, and still you can't hate them. (Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru; writing credit: Shinobu Hashimoto; Eijir� Hisaita)

Sex Starved (1988)

Starved for Affection (1985)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Character Centered Living In A Character Starved World (reference)

• Starved Rock (The Collected Works of Edgar Lee Masters - 56 Volumes) (reference)

• Starved Rock Murders (reference)

• Starved Rock Stories: Selected Histories and Images of North Central Illinois (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Launch lunch on Inner Brass Island Launch lunch was a venerable institution on hydrographic ships Usually consisted of bread, bologna, and whatever else could be put in a cooler Always generated gripes but no one ever starved Tide gauge installation crew breaking for lunch. Credit: Coast & Geodetic Survey Historical Image Collection.

An aerial with a closer view of the containment dike on the right. One interesting feature to note is the multiple outlets pumping sediment onto the island. East Timbalier Island was sediment starved, the pumping of sediments onto the marsh platform is helping the island to accrete. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

Horrible examples of Nazi brutality found by the American 3rd Armd [sic] Div., FUSA when it captured the German slave labor camp at Nordhausen ... Starved, almost blind Russian hobbles to an American ambulance / Roberts. Credit: Library of Congress.

A starved, almost dead Polish laborer being carried to ambulance by American medics, in a German slave labor camp at Nordhausen, Germany] / Roberts. Credit: Library of Congress.

The reason of the Indian outbreak General Miles declares that the Indians are starved into rebellion. Credit: Library of Congress.

Lovers' Leap, Starved Rock, Ill. Credit: Library of Congress.

Starved Rock, Illinois. Credit: Library of Congress.

View of Illinois Valley from top of "Starved Rock". Credit: Library of Congress.

Illinois River from Starved Rock. Credit: Library of Congress.

Starved Rock. Credit: Library of Congress.

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And will any one say, he had no right to those acorns or apples, he thus appropriated, because he had not the consent of all mankind to make them his? Was it a robbery thus to assume to himself what belonged to all in common? If such a consent as that was necessary, man had starved, notwithstanding the plenty God had given him. (Second Treatise of Government)

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He stopped and looked out at the dry fields, at the starved tree clumps hanging uneasily in the heated distance.

I told my wife, she had been too thrifty, for I found she had starved herself and her daughter to nothing.

We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

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Health

When starved of normal amounts of oxygen, the cells that make up these tissues begin to deteriorate, sometimes dying off completely. (references)

When a specific region of the spinal cord becomes starved of oxygen, or ischemic, nerve cells and fibers may begin to deteriorate relatively quickly. (references)

Economic History

Cambodia

Thousands starved or died of disease during the evacuation. (references)

Cambodia

Many starved before the first harvest, and hunger and malnutrition--bordering on starvation--were constant during those years. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Prisoners reportedly were beaten to death, tortured, deprived of water, or starved to death. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "starved": be starved ♦ starved area ♦ starved aster ♦ starved basin ♦ starved cell ♦ starved joint ♦ starved starving. Additional references.

Beginning with "starved": starved-priest.

Ending with "starved": cash-starved, job-starved, success-starved.

Arabic 

‏ميت من الجوع, ‏مجوع (famished). (various references)

Chinese 

饥饿 (hunger, Hungered, Hungering, hungry, starvation). (various references)

Danish

utilstrækkelig ladet celle (starved cell), ufuldkommen limfuge (starved glue line), udsultet celle (starved cell), tomt bassin (starved basin), mat celle (starved cell), harpiksfattigt område (starved area). (various references)

Dutch

verhongerde lijmvoeg (starved glue line), uitgeputte cel (starved cell), leeg bekken (starved basin), harsarm gebied (starved area), goudglans (gold lustre, starved gold), droge voeg (starved joint). (various references)

Finnish

nälkiintynyt (famished, starving). (various references)

French

affamé (starveling, starving). (various references)

German

verhungerte (famished), gehungert (famished). (various references)

Greek 

μη πληρωθείσα λεκάνη (starved basin), επιφάνεια στερημένη ρητίνης (starved area), ελλιπώς φορτισμένο στοιχείο (starved cell), ελλειμματική συγκόλληση (starved joint), λιποτραφές στοιχείο (starved cell), αρμός φτωχής συγκόλλησης (starved glue line), διψασμένη επιφάνεια (starved area), Bερνίκι χρυσού διαφανές (gold lustre, starved gold). (various references)

Hebrew 

מורעב (famished, hungered, ravenous). (various references)

Hungarian

kiéhezett (esurient, famished, ravenous). (various references)

Italian

lustro d'oro (gold lustre, starved gold), incollaggio scarso (starved glue line), giunto con scarso strato di colla (starved joint), bacino sottoalimentato (starved basin), area a insufficiente impregnazione (starved area). (various references)

Manx

shanglanit (shrunken), roit neeu, lhejit (frozen, perished with cold, starving), lhedit (starving). (various references)

Pig Latin

arvedstay

Portuguese

ouro transparente (gold lustre, starved gold), junta magra (starved joint), colagem deficiente (starved glue line), área seca (starved area). (various references)

Romanian

înfometat (esurient, famished, hunger-bitten, hungry, starveling). (various references)

Russian 

голодать;истощаться изголодавшийся. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

izgladneo (famished, sharp-set). (various references)

Spanish

famélico (famished, ravenous, starveling, starving). (various references)

Swedish

utsvulten (famished, ravenous). (various references)

Turkish

hasret olmak (be starved, crave, long, pine for, Raven, regret, yearn), aç kalmak (be starved, go hungry), özlem çekmek (be starved). (various references)

famelici, famelicus. (various references)

Misspellings

"Starved" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scarved, staived, starued, starvy, Stavro, Tsarev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: adverts.

-1 letter: advert, averts, daters, derats, stared, starve, staved, trades, traves, treads, vaster.

-2 letters: aster, avers, avert, dares, darts, dater, dates, dears, derat, devas, drats, drave, drest, rased, rated, rates, raved, raves, reads, sated, saved, saver, stade, stare, stave, stead, tared, tares, tears, trade, trave, tread, tsade, verst, verts, vesta.

-3 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates.

+2 letters: adversity, advertise, derivates, deviators, duratives, harvested, stravaged, traversed.

+3 letters: adsorptive, adventures, advertised, advertiser, advertises, advertizes, davenports, denervates, devastator, driveshaft, outsavored, ovaritides, overcasted, overdrafts, oversalted, overstated, overstayed, overtasked, overtrades, privatised, stravaiged, travestied.

+4 letters: adventurers, adventuress, adventurism, adventurist, adventurous, adversative, adversities, advertences, advertisers, advertising, animadverts, asseverated, depravities, derivations, derivatives, derivatizes, devastators, distractive, divaricates, driveshafts, drivetrains, duumvirates, eviscerated, gravidities, maidservant, overstaffed, revalidates, revitalised, servanthood, transvalued, trivialised, unharvested, untraversed, vineyardist.