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I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
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Meaning of "starving" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF STARVING

starving  [ˈstɑːvɪŋ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF STARVING

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Starving is an adjective.
The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES STARVING MEAN IN ENGLISH?

starving

Starvation

Starvation is a severe deficiency in caloric energy intake. It is the most extreme form of malnutrition. In humans, prolonged starvation can cause permanent organ damage and eventually, death. The term inanition refers to the symptoms and effects of starvation. According to the World Health Organization, hunger is the single gravest threat to the world's public health. The WHO also states that malnutrition is by far the biggest contributor to child mortality, present in half of all cases. Undernutrition is a contributory factor in the death of 3.1 million children under five every year. Figures on actual starvation are difficult to come by, but according to the Food and Agriculture Organization, the less severe condition of undernourishment currently affects about 842 million people, or about one in eight people in the world population. The bloated stomach, as seen in the picture to the right, represents a form of malnutrition called kwashiorkor which is caused by insufficient protein despite a sufficient caloric intake. Children are more vulnerable to kwashiorkor whose advanced symptoms include weight loss and muscle wasting.

Definition of starving in the English dictionary

The definition of starving in the dictionary is dying of hunger. Other definition of starving is very hungry; ravenous.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH STARVING


approving
əˈpruːvɪŋ
believing
bɪˈliːvɪŋ
carving
ˈkɑːvɪŋ
deceiving
dɪˈsiːvɪŋ
deserving
dɪˈzɜːvɪŋ
earthmoving
ˈɜːθˌmuːvɪŋ
fast-moving
ˌfɑːstˈmuːvɪŋ
grieving
ˈɡriːvɪŋ
improving
ɪmˈpruːvɪŋ
Irving
ˈɜːvɪŋ
leaving
ˈliːvɪŋ
moving
ˈmuːvɪŋ
nonmoving
ˌnɒnˈmuːvɪŋ
serving
ˈsɜːvɪŋ
sleeving
ˈsliːvɪŋ
slow-moving
ˌsləʊˈmuːvɪŋ
thieving
ˈθiːvɪŋ
unnerving
ʌnˈnɜːvɪŋ
weaving
ˈwiːvɪŋ
woodcarving
ˈwʊdˌkɑːvɪŋ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE STARVING

starting rate
starting salary
starting stalls
startingly
startle
startle colour
startled
startlement
startler
startling
startlingly
startlish
starvation
starvation diet
starvation level
starve
starve the bardies!
starveling
starver
starwort

WORDS THAT END LIKE STARVING

craving
diving
driving
giving
living
loving
nerving
problem-solving
proving
rock carving
saving
self-serving
shaving
surviving
thanksgiving
timeserving
undeserving
unobserving
unswerving
wood carving

Synonyms and antonyms of starving in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «STARVING»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «starving» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of starving

Translation of «starving» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF STARVING

Find out the translation of starving to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of starving from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «starving» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

极饿的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

hambriento
570 millions of speakers

English

starving
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भूख से मर
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تجويع
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

голодают
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

faminto
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনাহারী
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

affamé
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kelaparan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

hungernd
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ペコペコの
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

몹시 배고픈
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Keluwen
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đói
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பட்டினி
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

भुकेलेला
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

çok aç
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

affamato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

głodny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

голодують
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

mor de foame
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πεθαίνουν από την πείνα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

honger
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

svälter
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

sulter
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of starving

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «STARVING»

The term «starving» is very widely used and occupies the 21.968 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «STARVING» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «starving» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «starving» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about starving

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10 QUOTES WITH «STARVING»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word starving.
1
Carol Alt
I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.
2
Edward St Aubyn
I see the author as the person who has written; the writer, the one involved in the process of writing. And they're not necessarily friends. The writer is the one I want to reinforce; the author would just feed on the reviews - so I'm in favour of starving him.
3
Bruce Barton
When you have something for breakfast, you're not going to be starving by lunch.
4
Samantha Bond
I get so nervous before I go on stage that I can never eat very much, so I'm always completely starving afterwards and dying for a bowl of pasta.
5
Creed Bratton
In my early days, I was about 145 pounds. I was really a starving artist; the poster child for starving artists.
6
Jonathan Cain
I was starving before I hit Journey. Very, very rough times... I didn't know where the next pay check was gonna come.
7
Jim Carrey
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
8
Pete Domenici
I have said democracy and freedom do not work too well if you are hungry, if you are starving.
9
Ann Druyan
I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.
10
Andrea Dworkin
Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «STARVING»

Discover the use of starving in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to starving and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Perfect Girls, Starving Daughters: The Frightening New ...
Draws on original research and more than one hundred interviews with patients, psychologists, nutritionists, and others to analyze the pervasiveness of eating disorders and body-image-related emotional challenges in today's generation of ...
Courtney E. Martin, 2007
2
Starving Jesus: Off the Pew, Into the World
I was hungry and you gave me no food, I was thirsty and you have me no drink… It’s time to STOP STARVING JESUS.
Craig Gross, J. R. Mahon, 2010
3
"Starving Armenians": America and the Armenian Genocide, ...
Peterson explores the American response to these atrocities, from initial reports to President Wilson until Armenia's eventual absorption into the Soviet Union.
Merrill D. Peterson, 2004
4
Feeding the Starving Mind: A Personalized, Comprehensive ...
In Feeding the Starving Mind, a clinical psychologist and eating disorder specialist presents a program designed to help the older teen or adult with low-weight eating disorders like anorexia nervosa develop healthy eating habits and cope ...
Doreen A. Samelson, 2009
5
Faster! I'm Starving! 100 Dishes in 25 Minutes or Less
Who says there's no time to cook? In the time it takes to find the phone book and call the local pizza shop, busy parents across the country could be serving up a hot, home-cooked meal for their families.
Kevin Mills, Nancy Mills, 2009
6
Starving America
Alfred McCann's 1913 ""Starving America"" is a call to arms against the ""processed, bleached, colored, de-natured, de-germinated, de-mineralized, chemically treated"" doods that ""now menace the health and life of America.""
Alfred McCann, 2008
7
Curse of the Starving Class: A Play in Three Acts
A highly original and affecting play which blends past and present, through the imaginative use of parallel action, as a young man tries to reconcile his troubled present and his emotionally deprived childhood.
Sam Shepard, 1976
8
Starving for Salvation: The Spiritual Dimensions of Eating ...
"A probing and intelligent explanation of dieting and weight obsession that points to religiosity, morality, and absolution from guilt as the primary agents motivating women's irrational quest for thinness."--Choice
Michelle Mary Lelwica, 2002
9
Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of ...
Chronicles the short life and quick demise of the "Business Week of the Internet economy," the publishing phenomenon founded in 1998 that generated more than $200 million in revenue but was gone, along with the dot-com boom, by 2001.
James Ledbetter, 2003
10
Suddenly Single and Starving
THIS IS A LEARNING COOK BOOK FOR THOSE OF US THAT "CAN'T BOIL WATER" AND WANT TO LEARN, WITHOUT ANY HASSLES.
Edward Oppenheimer, 2012

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «STARVING»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term starving is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Starving pup found in Virginia dumpster has died
The starving dog was found in a construction dumper near a home on Median Court on the afternoon of July 16, police said. “The puppy was inside of a black ... «wtvr.com, Jul 15»
2
Animal cruelty trial resumes for Maryland farmer accused of …
FREDERICK, Md. – A Maryland farmer accused of neglecting and starving his cows, goats and sheep is testifying in his defense in Frederick, where his trial ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Evergreen couple Katie and Jason Barton accused of starving 6 …
An Evergreen couple has been arrested and accused of starving their 6-year-old daughter, who was brought to Children's Hospital Colorado weighing only 25 ... «The Denver Channel, Jun 15»
4
Torture trial: Salinas mothers guilty of chaining, starving girl
DeAnda is facing a sentence of up to life in prison after being found guilty of torturing the girl, starving her, beating her with a belt, biting her and sticking a steak ... «Monterey County Herald, May 15»
5
Starving toddlers near Princeton, Minn., were often left alone, once …
Newly released details from Sherburne County authorities paint an increasingly bleak picture of the conditions that two starving toddlers endured for many ... «Minneapolis Star Tribune, Mar 15»
6
NOAA Says Warmer Pacific Could Be Behind Starving Sea Lion …
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP)– Starving sea lion pups and seabirds up and down the West Coast this year may be part of a large-scale shift of the Pacific Ocean ... «CBS Local, Mar 15»
7
Starving sea lion pups stranding on California beaches in huge …
The starving sea lion pup was so tiny that it looked like a rock at the base of the seaside cliff until it struggled to raise its head as humans approached. It bleated ... «CBC.ca, Mar 15»
8
Southampton: Please Feed The Ducks
Black ducks and greater scaup, also called broadbill ducks, have been starving to death because of the frigid weather, experts say. Ice in the shallow marshes ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 15»
9
SF man accused of starving friend's dog to death
A San Francisco man was charged with felony animal cruelty for starving a friend's dog to death, authorities said Thursday. Kun Sun, 26, has pleaded not guilty ... «SFGate, Mar 15»
10
Starving horses rescued from Boone County property
ANOTHER CASE OF NEGLECT FOR HORSES IN THE SAME NEBRASKA COUNTY JUST TWO MONTHS PART. GOOD EVENING I'M MELISSA FRY. AND I'M ... «KETV Omaha, Feb 15»

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