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Definition of Starving
1. Noun. The act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine. "They were charged with the starvation of children in their care"
2. Adjective. Suffering from lack of food.
Definition of Starving
1. Verb. (present participle of starve) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Starving
1. starve [v] - See also: starve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Starving
Literary usage of Starving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1909)
"THE starving TIME; DALE'S ADMINISTRATION At this critical moment (May 26th, 1610)
Newport, Gates, and Somers, with an hundred and fifty men, arrived from ..."
2. A History of the United States and Its People: For the Use of Schools by Edward Eggleston (1899)
"Life of Pocahontas," by The starving time. E. Eggleston and Mrs. Seelye. ...
The starving people ate the hogs, the dogs, and the horses, even to their skins ..."
3. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll by Robert Green Ingersoll (1901)
"Have you read the article in the Morning Advertiser entitled "Workers starving " ?
Answer. I have read it, and was greatly surprised at the answers made to ..."
4. American Ballads and Songs by Louise Pound (1922)
"83 starving TO DEATH ON A GOVERNMENT CLAIM Frank Baker's my name, and a bachelor
I am. I'm keeping old batch on an elegant plan, You'll find me out west in ..."
5. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National (1907)
"The Man Who Is starving! Not he we once knew, To whom in the street our coppers
... The Man Who Is starving—how keen is the goad That gives him scant ease, ..."
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