starving

English

Pronunciation
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  • Rhymes: -ɑː(r)vɪŋ

Verb

starving

  1. present participle 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

starving (plural starvings)

  1. 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 […]
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