most 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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Us most starved to death 'fore us got here and then us have hard time.

From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 4 by United States. Work Projects Administration

"No. From Indiana to Western Kansas where we were most starved out, and then back to Indiana and out here."

From The Homesteader A Novel by Micheaux, Oscar

I'm most starved, an' I guess the rest are, too.

From Glen of the High North by Cody, H. A. (Hiram Alfred)

I don't believe but what she's most starved her.”

From Jane Field A Novel by Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins

Me'n the critter 'n Tad is most starved a waitin'.

From Buffalo Roost by Cheley, F. H.