half-famished

• a word derived from famished.
  famished

  adjective

  extremely hungry: famished multitudes in the immediate postwar period.

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half-famished

But Beatrix was half-famished when she went to bed.

From Tried for Her Life A Sequel to "Cruel As the Grave" by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

After he went away, his wife led a vicious life; and four years after she came to our door to beg a crust of bread—a poor, wasted, sick, half-famished creature.

From The Travellers A Tale. Designed for Young People. by Catharine Maria Sedgwick

Soon the boiling-pot began to send forth a most savoury and appetising smell, to these half-famished men.

From The Last of the Vikings by John Bowling

When the hunger of the half-famished troopers was somewhat appeased, the events of the morning began to form the topic of conversation—which, however, was carried on only in whispers.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 15 by Various

The half-famished fox had no mind to lose his breakfast, and holding fast to the boot fled up the hill, to the disgust of the cook and to the amusement of his comrades.

From True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World by Adolphus W. Greely

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