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starveling
[ stahrv-ling ]
adjective
- starving; suffering from lack of nourishment.
- pining with want.
- poor in condition or quality.
- such as to entail or suggest starvation.
starveling
/ ˈstɑːvlɪŋ /
noun
- a starving or poorly fed person, animal, etc
- ( as modifier )
a starveling child
adjective
- insufficient; meagre; scant
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Origin of starveling1
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Example Sentences
They lay flat and deflated, but laid out in one assembly beside a starveling twisted bush.
Only the arts which in a pecuniary sense pay, will thrive, and the rest will live a starveling life.
There is no virtue in a starveling piety which turns all beauty into ugliness and shrivels up every natural affection.
He will have poor turnips and starveling wheat, and kill his fields with undue apportionments of guano and bonedust.
Jim was wandering back to the road, deflected now and then by some starveling plant.
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