'Starved' definitions:
Definition of 'starved'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Starved'
From: GCIDE
- Starve \Starve\ (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
- 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate. [1913 Webster]
- In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. [1913 Webster]
- Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys. [1913 Webster]
- Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving. [1913 Webster]
- Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'starved'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aching for,
- attenuated,
- bare-handed,
- beggarly,
- cadaverous,
- corpselike,
- craving,
- deprived of,
- desirous of,
- dog-hungry,
- dying for,
- emacerated,
- emaciate,
- emaciated,
- empty,
- empty-handed,
- famished,
- famishing,
- fasting,
- haggard,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hollow-eyed,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- ill off,
- ill-equipped,
- ill-furnished,
- ill-provided,
- impoverished,
- jejune,
- lacking,
- marantic,
- marasmic,
- on short commons,
- pauperized,
- peaked,
- peaky,
- peckish,
- pinched,
- pinched with hunger,
- poor,
- puny,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- sharp-set,
- shorthanded,
- shriveled,
- skeletal,
- starveling,
- starving,
- tabetic,
- tabid,
- underfed,
- undermanned,
- undernourished,
- unfed,
- unfilled,
- unprovided,
- unreplenished,
- unsupplied,
- voracious,
- wasted,
- weakened,
- weazeny,
- withered,
- wizened,
- wolfish,
- wraithlike