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Definition of half-starved in English: half-starvedadjective Very poorly fed or nourished. people with thin, half-starved bodies Example sentencesExamples - So, the already sick and half-starved men grew steadily weaker.
- Who decided that women were to be visually flawless, half-starved twigs in order to be acceptable?
- We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.
- Six days later, scraped, bruised, and half-starved, they found help in a small village thirty miles away.
- Further investigation revealed that the bird was blind, not to mention half-starved.
- Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.
- He died in 1948, impoverished, half-starved, and all but forgotten.
- I found survivors, twenty-three children, half-starved, huddled in closets and basements, hiding.
- "I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.
- A distinguished foreign visitor, France's Prince Napoleon, inspected both armies and reported that the rebels numbered about 60 000 and were "ragged, dirty and half-starved."
Definition of half-starved in US English: half-starvedadjectiveˌhafˈstärvdˌhæfˈstɑrvd Very poorly fed; malnourished. people with thin, half-starved bodies Example sentencesExamples - So, the already sick and half-starved men grew steadily weaker.
- He died in 1948, impoverished, half-starved, and all but forgotten.
- We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.
- Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.
- "I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.
- A distinguished foreign visitor, France's Prince Napoleon, inspected both armies and reported that the rebels numbered about 60 000 and were "ragged, dirty and half-starved."
- Who decided that women were to be visually flawless, half-starved twigs in order to be acceptable?
- Further investigation revealed that the bird was blind, not to mention half-starved.
- I found survivors, twenty-three children, half-starved, huddled in closets and basements, hiding.
- Six days later, scraped, bruised, and half-starved, they found help in a small village thirty miles away.
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