starved

starved
    adj 1: suffering from lack of food [syn: {starved}, {starving}]
    2: extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and
       sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and
       ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory
       enemy" [syn: {famished}, {ravenous}, {sharp-set}, {starved},
       {esurient}]
    

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.
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            In hot coals he hath himself raked . . .
            Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.
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   2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
      to be very indigent.
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            Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.
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   3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.
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            Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.
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            Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.
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   Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
         in the United States.
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69 Moby Thesaurus words for "starved":
      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