starved
/stɑːɹvd/ adjective B2- Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
- Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
- Extremely hungry. · I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
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“I should like something to eat besides fruit,” said the girl, “and I’m sure Toto is nearly starved.
What a starved, unloved life she had had--a life of drudgery and poverty and neglect; for Marilla was shrewd enough to read between the lines of Anne’s history and divine the truth.
Now get hence, or by the Sambhur that I killed (I eat no starved cattle), back thou goest to thy mother, burned beast of the jungle, lamer than ever thou camest into the world!
So if I am starved or killed here, it will be all my own fault.
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