starved

English

Adjective

starved (comparative more starved, superlative most starved)

1. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
2. (by extension) Deprived of nourishment or of something vital.
   • 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 Millington, […], published 1594, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i], signature F3, recto:

     Alas poore hart, that kiſſe is comfortleſſe, / As frozen vvater to a ſtarued ſnake.

3. (colloquial, hyperbolic, emphatic) Extremely hungry.

   I’m starved! I haven’t eaten since breakfast.

   • 1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:

     She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse.

Translations

approaching starvation

• Maori: makuhea
• Spanish: hambreado (es) (Latin America)

extremely hungry

• Dutch: uitgehongerd (nl)
• Spanish: hambreado (es) (Latin America)
• Swedish: utsvulten (sv)
• Tok Pisin: hanggre

Verb

starved

1. simple past and past participle of starve

Anagrams

• adverts, dravest