Crossword clues for starved
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.]
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To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.]
--Lydgate.In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.
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To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.
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To perish or die with cold.
--Spenser.Have I seen the naked starve for cold?
--Sandys.Starving with cold as well as hunger.
--W. Irving.Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used in the United States.
Wiktionary
1 Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished. 2 (context colloquial English) Extremely hungry. v
(en-past of: starve)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Starved is an FX television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own.
Starved was the lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Side of Comedy" block with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network's demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.
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?