starving
adjective
uk/ˈstɑː.vɪŋ/us/ˈstɑːr.vɪŋ/starvingadjective(NO FOOD)
B2
dyingbecause of not having enoughfood:
饿得奄奄一息的，快饿死的Thecatswereneglectedand starving.那些猫无人照管，饿得奄奄一息。
B2informal
veryhungry:
非常饥饿的Isn'tlunchreadyyet? I'm starving.午餐还没好吗？我快饿死了。
wanting or needing food
- hungryBy dinner time we all felt really hungry.
- starvingIs there anything to eat? I'm starving!
- starvedUSHe ate so quickly, like he was starved.
- famishedAfter that long workout, I'm absolutely famished.
- ravenousHe's going through a growth spurt, so he's just ravenous.
Hungry & thirsty
- anti-hunger
- appetite
- be gaspingidiom
- cannibalism
- eat
- food poverty
- hunger
- hunger striker
- hungrily
- hungry
- parched
- ravenously
- smackyourlipsidiom
- starvation
- starved
- thirst
- thirstily
- thirsty
- undernourished
- voraciousness
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Death and dying
starvingadjective(COLD)
[after verb]Scottish EnglishorNorthern English
extremelycold:
极其寒冷的，酷寒的Could you put theheatingon? I'm starving!你能把暖气打开吗？我快冻死了！
Cold
- Baltic
- be (as) cold as iceidiom
- bitter
- bitterly
- bone-chilling
- cold snap
- coldness
- cooling
- crispness
- dank
- frozen
- glacial
- nuclear winter
- perished
- polar vortex
- post-glacial
- refrigerated
- sharpness
- stone-cold
- ultracold