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starved
[stahrv] 
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starved
[stahrv]
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| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hungry |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, emaciated, famished, macerated, malnourished, ravenous, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, well fed |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
| Synonyms: | count calories, eat sparingly, fall off, fast, go without, lose weight, reduce, skinny down, slim, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
| Antonyms: | gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | drawn |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tense, fatigued |
| Synonyms: | fraught, haggard, harassed, harrowed, peaked, pinched, sapped, starved, strained, stressed, taut, thin, tired, worn |
| Antonyms: | relaxed, unstressed |
| Main Entry: | emaciated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished; thin |
| Synonyms: | anorexic, atrophied, attenuate, attenuated, bony, cadaverous, consumptive, famished, gaunt, haggard, lank, lean, like a bag of bones, meager, peaked, pinched, scrawny, skeletal, skeletonlike, skin-and-bones, skinny, starved, thin as rail, underfed, wasted, wizened |
| Antonyms: | fat, heavy, overnourished, overweight, plump |
| Main Entry: | famished |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, dog-hungry, empty, flying light, having the munchies, hollow, hungering, hungry, ravening, ravenous, starved, starved to death, voracious |
| Antonyms: | full, sated, satiated, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go without food |
| Synonyms: | abstain, deny oneself, diet, famish, forbear, go hungry, not eat, refrain, starve |
| Antonyms: | eat, glut, gorge, stuff |
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, greedy, gross, hoggish, insatiable, never full, omnivorous, piggish, piggy, prodigious, rapacious, ravening, ravenous, sating, starved, starving, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | haggard |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | worn, weakened |
| Synonyms: | ashen, careworn, drawn, emaciated, exhausted, faded, fagged, fatigued, fretted, gaunt, ghastly, lank, lean, pale, pallid, pinched, scraggy, scrawny, shrunken, skinny, spare, starved, thin, tired, wan, wasted, weak, wearied, worn-down, wrinkled |
| Antonyms: | fresh, healthy, hearty, strong, unworn |
| Main Entry: | hungry |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | starving; desirous |
| Synonyms: | athirst, avid, carnivorous, could eat a horse, covetous, craving, eager, edacious, empty, esurient, famished, famishing, flying light, got the munchies, greedy, hankering, hoggish, hollow, hungered, insatiate, keen, omnivorous, on empty stomach, piggish, rapacious, ravenous, starved, unfilled, unsatisfied, voracious, yearning |
| Antonyms: | full, replete, satiated, satisfied, stuffed |
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