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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | brittle |
| Synonyms: | breakable, corroded, crisp, crunchy, decayed, degenerated, deteriorated, deteriorating, disintegrated, eroded, fragile, frail, frangible, friable, oxidized, perishing, powdery, pulverizable, rotted, rotten, rusted, shivery, short, soft, worn |
| Antonyms: | flexible, pliable, soft |
| Main Entry: | moribund |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dying |
| Synonyms: | at death's door, at the end of the rope, declining, done for, doomed, expiring, fading, fated, going, mortal, mortally ill, on one's deathbed, on one's last leg, one foot in the grave, passing, perishing |
| Main Entry: | starving/starved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | could eat a horse, craving, dehydrated, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peckish, perishing, pinched, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
| Antonyms: | fed, full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
| Synonyms: | craving, dehydrated, dog-hungry, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, flying light, haggard, have munchies, hungering, hungry, malnourished, peaked, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, undernourished, weakened |
| Antonyms: | full, satiated |
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