starve
verb (used without object)
to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
half-starving
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a word derived from
starve.
Example Sentences
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Medvedeva said last year that Tutberidze's methods "work but as you get older, with every year it's harder to put up with it" and that she was also "half-starving" at times.
From BBC ● Feb. 18, 2022
Exhausted and half-starving, Melville was scouring the wasteland for fellow survivors of the most famous ship in the world.
From Reuters ● Dec. 11, 2019
He tumbles down the artistic ladder, first painting propaganda posters, and finally, half-starving, getting a job dressing shop windows.
From Economist ● Sep. 15, 2016
Yet the refugees are still there, waiting and half-starving, their rations now at record lows.
From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2016
But it is impossible for me and my wife to lead, once more, a half-starving life in Paris.
From Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt — Volume 2 by Francis Hueffer
