'Starving' definitions:
Definition of 'starving'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Suffering from lack of food [syn: starved, starving]
noun
The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine; "the besiegers used starvation to induce surrender"; "they were charged with the starvation of children in their care" [syn: starvation, starving]
Definition of 'Starving'
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]