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starved

/stɑːɹvd/

starved adjective: approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished. Also the simple past and past participle of starve.

Adjective

starved (comparative more starved, superlative most starved)

  1. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
  2. (broadly) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
    • Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.c. 1588–1593 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Most Lamentable Romaine Tragedie of Titus Andronicus: […] (First Quarto), London: […] Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Edward White & Thomas...
  3. (colloquial, emphatic, excessive) Extremely hungry.
    • I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.
    • She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46

Also used as

starved is also the simple past and past participle of starve.

starved meaning in Tamil and Telugu

starved in Tamil

பட்டினி கிடந்தது

starved in Telugu

ఆకలితో అలమటించారు

Forms of starved

comparativemore starved
superlativemost starved

Words formed from starved

Phrases with starved

Words that rhyme with starved

Questions about starved

What does starved mean?
Starved means approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
What is starved in Tamil?
Starved in Tamil is பட்டினி கிடந்தது. See Starved meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is starved?
Starved is an adjective.
How do you pronounce starved?
Starved is pronounced /stɑːɹvd/.

Words near starved in the dictionary

  1. starve
  2. starve acre
  3. starve the beast
  4. starve-acre
  5. starveacre
  6. starved
  7. starved the beast
  8. starvedly
  9. starveling
  10. starvelings
  11. starvemaxx

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Adapted from Wiktionary: starved (page history and authors); starved (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); starved (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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