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Definition: HUNGER-STARVE

Part of Speech Definition
Verb 1. To starve with hunger; to famish.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: hunger-starving, hunger-starved, hunger-starves, hunger-starver, hunger-starvers, hunger-starvingly and hunger-starvedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "Hunger-starve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Hunger-starve \Hun"ger-starve`\, transitive verb. To starve with hunger; to famish. [obsolete]. (references)

Definition: HUNGER-STARVE

Part of SpeechDefinition
Verb1. To starve with hunger; to famish.[Websters]
2. Seldom used base verb from the following inflections: hunger-starving, hunger-starved, hunger-starves, hunger-starver, hunger-starvers, hunger-starvingly and hunger-starvedly.[Eve - graph theoretic]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license.

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Date "HUNGER-STARVE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references)

Note: Hunger-starve \Hun"ger-starve`\, transitive verb. To starve with hunger; to famish. [obsolete]. (references)