Definitions for starving
starv·ing

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. starvation, starving(adj)

   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"

2. starved, starving(adj)

   suffering from lack of food

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1. Starving

   of Starve

How to pronounce starving?

1. Alex

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of starving in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of starving in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of starving in a Sentence

1. Claude Jean:

   We are in misery and we are starving, we cannot stand it anymore.

2. Christoph Schwitzer:

   Indri are being hunted for food by rural Malagasy needing to feed their starving families, lemur hunting rose after the 2009 political crisis and is directly poverty-driven.

3. Robert E. Lee:

   I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving.

4. Ayesha Bibi:

   Crops, floods and poverty are all interlinked. The government should ask us what is happening on the ground, it is actually the responsibility of the government of Pakistan to help us, not the foreign-funded NGOs who have kept us from starving.

5. Herman Pontzer:

   We think this is a really common evolutionary adaptation that all animals use to keep from outstripping their resources and to keep from starving. Your body is listening to your environment and setting an energy expenditure level it can maintain.

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