Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry, stripped of its leaves; without leaves or blossoms: noting a branch of a tree used as a bearing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Approaching
starvation ,emaciated andmalnourished . - adjective colloquial Extremely
hungry . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
starve .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective suffering from lack of food
- adjective extremely hungry
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Examples
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If I could have painted a picture for half a guinea by which they could have made twenty whilst I starved, _I could have starved_.
Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. 1831
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The Rangers ask Matt Harrison, a 26-year-old with less of a household name to bring it home for the title starved Rangers.
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But I think the term starved for attention is accurate.
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When he penned these lines, he had recently emerged half-starved from a nine-year period of incarceration in a lunatic asylum, having been subjected to more than 60 electro-shock treatments.
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again? Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again? Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again? Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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When the Kulaks resisted giving up their land and their property to be redistributed to "the people", Stalin starved and then slaughtered them by the millions.
Tax Cuts for the Rich, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again? Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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That being said the question that now needs be asked: are these investments in emerging markets impacting the ability of these Wall Street banks and bank holding companies to service the capital starved from the American economy?
Raymond J. Learsy: Is Wall Street Zapping America Again? Raymond J. Learsy 2010
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