starveling
a person, animal, or plant that is starving.
starving; suffering from lack of nourishment.
pining with want.
poor in condition or quality.
such as to entail or suggest starvation.
Origin of starveling
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How to use starveling in a sentence
They lay flat and deflated, but laid out in one assembly beside a starveling twisted bush.
The Invaders | William Fitzgerald JenkinsOnly the arts which in a pecuniary sense pay, will thrive, and the rest will live a starveling life.
Paris: With Pen and Pencil | David W. BartlettThere is no virtue in a starveling piety which turns all beauty into ugliness and shrivels up every natural affection.
Flowers of Freethought | George W. FooteHe will have poor turnips and starveling wheat, and kill his fields with undue apportionments of guano and bonedust.
Around The Tea-Table | T. De Witt TalmageJim was wandering back to the road, deflected now and then by some starveling plant.
Country Neighbors | Alice Brown
British Dictionary definitions for starveling
/ (ˈstɑːvlɪŋ) archaic /
a starving or poorly fed person, animal, etc
(as modifier): a starveling child
insufficient; meagre; scant
Origin of starveling
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