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?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

How to say starving in sign language?

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. Thomas Rinaldi:

   It makes for oil to stay at low levels, the companies aren't flush, but they aren't starving. That speaks for the rig count to stay low but not go much lower.

2. Photographer Guillaume Binet:

   The Houthis are only allowing vegetables to pass through into the city center, there is hardly any meat or flour left. People are starving. They are really struggling to eat.

3. Joan Salge Blake:

   I think there could be a benefit to weight loss if you break up the meals, as long as the calories are controlled, [because] you are less likely to be starving and eat everything in front of you.

4. Charles Nkomo:

   Here in Zimbabwe we are starving, the life we are living here now is difficult. You can't live.

5. 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.

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