half-starved

adjective

1. having been deprived of food; malnourished

Example Sentences

The rest toiled on through swamps and mire, half-starved and benumbed with cold.

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After that Wilson spent his days in the alehouse, until he got delirium, and died half starved at the age of seventy.

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He seemed weak, too, as though he had been half starved in his prison.

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"Then you must have been half starved on your journey," replied the professor, philosophically.

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Even that lesson failed to frighten the half-starved men who lurked in the poorer quarters.

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