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What is the adjective for starvation?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs starve and starvate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

starved
  1. Approaching starvation, emaciated and malnourished.
  2. (colloquial) Extremely hungry.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. starving, famished, peckish, empty, hungry, ravenous, esurient, voracious, ravening, edacious, dog-hungry, gluttonous, very hungry, starved to death, hollow, unfed, greedy, rapacious, insatiable, sharp-set, piggy, hoggish, piggish, could eat a horse, unquenchable, devouring, swinish, hungering, covetous, gorging, half-starved, dying of hunger, faint from lack of food, ready to eat a horse, avid, prodigious, omnivorous, uncontrolled, unappeasable, wolfish, gross, grasping, sating, craving, desirous, gannet-like, starving to death, having the munchies, deprived of food, flying light … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “The officers in Paterson were responding to a report of a starved puppy being kept outside in the heat with no food or water.”
      “You have to feed the starved body a little at a time so that it can get well again.”
starven
  1. (archaic) starved
starving
  1. present participle of starve
  2. Synonyms:
      3. perishing, dying from malnourishment, dying from lack of food, famishing, going hungry, going short of food, having nothing to eat, wasting away, wasting with hunger, depriving, dispossessing, divesting, robbing, stripping, abstaining, fasting, dieting, abstaining from food, going without food, not eating, denying oneself food, refraining from eating, refraining from food, eating nothing, starving oneself, macerating, refraining, denying oneself, going on hunger strike, practising abstention, forbearing, slimming, slenderizing, losing weight, cutting down, watching your weight, slimming down, counting calories, cutting back, eating selectively, eating sparingly, following a diet, going without, defunding, decapitalizing … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Thousands of buffalo emerged and allowed themselves to be killed to feed the starving tribal members.”
      “There may be a moral duty to help a starving child, but in this case, there is also a political dimension that alters the moral duty.”
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