not having enough food► starving someone who is starving has not had enough food for a long time and will die soon if they do not eat: · The people are starving and they need all the food and medical supplies we can give them.· They have barely enough money to keep them from starving.· a country full of starving peoplethe starving (=people who are starving): · The homeless and the starving, refugees of the war, were flocking to the cities.
► starve to have so little food to eat that you become ill or die: · The prisoners were taken out into the desert and left to starve.· In 1884, the crew of Young's ship nearly starved when they were blown off course.starve to death (=starve and die): · Unless these people get food in the next two weeks they will starve to death.
► hungry if people are hungry , they need food but do not have enough food to eat over a long period of time: · My children are hungry, I need a job.· Hungry people crowded around the relief wagon for food. go hungry (=not get food to eat): · If the crops fail again this year thousands of people will go hungry.
► not get enough to eat to not be given enough food, so that you are becoming ill: · The refugees in the camps are not getting enough to eat, and the living conditions are terrible.· A baby who is not gaining weight is probably not getting enough to eat.
► half-starved thin and looking ill because you do not have enough to eat: · Poor dog! He looks half-starved.· The soldiers were dirty and half-starved.
► underfed written people or animals who are underfed are not being given enough food to eat: · The servants were overworked and underfed.· fields full of underfed cattle
► malnourished formal unhealthy and thin because you have not had the right kinds of food over a long period of time: · During the 1930s a large proportion of Britain's urban population was malnourished.
not given enough food to eat OPP overfed