Usually means: Deprived of essential food, nutrients.
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  1. starved: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. starved: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. starved: Collins English Dictionary
  4. starved: Vocabulary.com
  5. Starved, starved: Wordnik
  6. starved: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. starved: Wiktionary
  8. starved: Dictionary.com
  9. starved: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Starved: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Starved: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. starved: Rhymezone
  13. Starved: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. starved: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  15. starved: Free Dictionary
  16. starved: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. starved: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. starved: Legal dictionary

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  1. starved: Medical dictionary

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  1. starved: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. starved: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  2. starved: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
adjective:  (by extension) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
adjective:  (colloquial, hyperbolic, emphatic) Extremely hungry.

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