starving

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   present participle and gerund of starve

   It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

2. 2
   noun

   starvation

   […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]

3. 3
   adj

   suffering from lack of food

4. 4
   noun

   the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine

5. 5
   adj

   Extremely hungry