starving
English
editPronunciation
edit- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈstɑɹvɪŋ/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈstɑːvɪŋ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)vɪŋ
Verb
editstarving
- present participle and gerund of starve
- 2013 June 7, Joseph Stiglitz, “Globalisation is about taxes too”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 188, number 26, page 19:
- It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. […] It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.
Noun
editstarving (plural starvings)
- starvation
- 1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre:
- […] surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living […]
Adjective
editstarving (comparative more starving, superlative most starving)