Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An obsolete past participle of starve.

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  • adjective archaic starved

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Examples

  • June 15, 2008 at 12:39 pm witch is Y U kant sea dat Aim starven tu def!

    Ur home late - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008

  • All these considerations determined Count Victor upon an immediate removal from this starven castle and this suspicious host.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  • He was in the midst of it when the door of the room opened and a beggar looked in -- a starven character of the neighbourhood parish, all bedecked with cheap brooches and babs of ribbon, leading by the hand the little child of his daughter wronged and dead.

    Doom Castle Neil Munro

  •    Of cinnamon rolls, nothing but cinnamon rolls, rejected for age or deformity but food nonetheless and he stoops touching them, they're heavy and sticky and his, and stooping further X scoops one from the pile picks a red ant from it maybe two and he eats it, eats the sweet roll feeling filthy and blessed, and damned if he doesn't stand there and eat his fill, starven belly pushing out in strange pregnancy before finally he limps away.

    Hotel Chelsea - Scene 5 2010

  • a short-legged garron he rode most clumsily, with arms that swung like wings from the shoulders, his boots keeping time to the canter with grotesque knockings against the gaunt and sweating flanks of his starven animal.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • "And yet this great profusion of their prince did so smally serve their hungry guts, like starven tikes that were never content with more than enough; at all their collations, assemblies, and sermons, they never left yelling and yelping in pursuit of their prey, Restore!

    The Reign of Mary Tudor James Anthony Froude 1856

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