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Answer for the clue "Deprived (of) ", 7 letters:
starved

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. suffering from lack of food [syn: starving ] extremely hungry; "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy" [syn: famished , ravenous ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
1 Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished. 2 (context colloquial English) Extremely hungry. v (en-past of: starve )

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Starve \Starve\ (st[aum]rv), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved (st[aum]rvd); p. pr. & vb. n. Starving .] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of ...

Usage examples of starved.

Then in her own right, she was a Darrell of the Westwitch Darrells, who prefer to call their source of income 'sanitary engineering products' rather than soap, so she wouldn't have starved if she'd run off with a mishi dancer.

When I was a child, it never dawned on me that someone supposedly being starved and beaten in a thorium mine shouldn't have all those luscious curves.

Beyond the stand of fronds were masses of Corviki, pulsing, throbbing as they absorbed the cast's emission, to all appearances starved for this form of energy.

The quick aging of Kolnar had seamed and scored it, until the starved hunger of the soul within showed through the flesh.

She starved herself so that she could still fit, because he couldn't reach her here.

The captain and his officers are quite starved of news so long in this part of the galaxy.

And thank you, Boira, I am hungry, but not starved and certainly nowhere near another Passover gorge.

She watched as Sean negligently pushed back into place equipment that would have been worth a small fortune on any planet, much less a technologically starved one like Petaybee.

In the station, people choked and died On the planet, people starved and died When captured, the killers bled and died I was sent here to die, too, here where the snows live, The waters live, the animals and the trees live, And you.

They were in a dreadful condition, not only starved but beaten and repeatedly abused.

None of them are starved, and the kids at least are playing," Sandy said.

Blood rushed through starved arteries, and her strained muscles reacted painfully.

The poor things were still sounding starved as they creeled about, tipping over claws and body shells, trying to find any scraps overlooked.

As blood rushed into starved tissues, Jayge gasped and writhed with pain.

And even if the Holders survived, locked in their Holds, how long would it be before they starved in a lifeless and barren land?