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more starved

ADJECTIVE

deprived of food

Synonyms

WEAK

could eat a horse craving dehydrated drawn dying emaciated empty faint famished haggard hungering hungry malnourished peaked peckish perishing pinched ravenous skinny thin underfed undernourished weakened

Antonyms

WEAK

fed full satisfied

ADJECTIVE

hungry

Synonyms

STRONGEST

malnourished

STRONG

emaciated famished macerated undernourished

WEAK

ravenous

Antonyms

WEAK

full well fed

Example Sentences

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The schools, the city departments and the press that holds them to account get more starved for funds.

From New York Times • Jun. 2, 2022

Historians believe a third of them or more starved to death.

From New York Times • Jun. 27, 2011

But research on such preventive measures is even more starved of financial support than case finding and treatment.

From Time Magazine Archive

If just the brightest or most affluent of the poor escape to private schools, the rest will be stranded in a public system even more starved for money than before.

From Time Magazine Archive

That it would once more be deprived of communication with the provinces; once more starved perhaps?

From Paris under the Commune The Seventy-Three Days of the Second Siege; with Numerous Illustrations, Sketches Taken on the Spot, and Portraits (from the Original Photographs) by Leighton, John