starving
noun
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L328448 on Wikidata ↗adjective
- to suffer or cause to suffer from deprivation or hunger
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/ / /ˈstɑːvɪŋ/
adj
- Extremely hungry
noun
- starvation
“[…] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]”
verb
- present participle and gerund of starve
“It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.”