starvingadjective
uk/ˈstɑː.vɪŋ/us/ˈstɑːr.vɪŋ/starving adjective (NO FOOD)
B2 dying because of not having enough food:
The cats were neglected and starving.
B2 informal very hungry:
Isn't lunch ready yet? I'm starving.
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Hungry & thirsty
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite
- be gasping idiom
- eat
- eat like a horse idiom
- empty
- gasp
- hunger
- hungry
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies
- parched
- ravenous
- smack
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation
- starved
- thirst
- thirsty
- unquenchable
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Death and dying
starving adjective (COLD)
[ after verb ] Scottish English or Northern English extremely cold:
Could you put the heating on? I'm starving!
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Cold
- be (as) cold as ice idiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- chill
- cooling
- freeze
- freezing
- frigid
- frigid zone
- frostbite
- ice-cold
- icy
- nip
- occluded front
- perished
- raw
- stone-cold
- windchill
- wintry
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