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Hungry vs. Starving

Difference Between Hungry and Starving

Hungry

feeling or showing the need for food
I was feeling ravenously hungry
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Starving

To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
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Hungry

Experiencing a desire or need for food.
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Starving

(Informal) To be hungry.
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Hungry

Extremely desirous; avid
hungry for recognition.
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Starving

To suffer from deprivation
a puppy starving for attention.
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Hungry

Characterized by or expressing hunger or craving
hungry eyes.
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Starving

(Archaic) To suffer or die from cold.
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Hungry

Lacking richness or fertility
hungry soil.
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Starving

To cause to starve.
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Hungry

Affected by hunger; having the physical need for food.
My kids go to bed hungry every night because I haven’t got much money for food.
I woke up very hungry and made some toast.
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Starving

To force to a specified state by starving
starved the town into submission.
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Hungry

Causing hunger.
All this gardening is hungry work.
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Starving

present participle of starve
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Hungry

(figuratively) Eager, having an avid desire (‘appetite’) for something.
the students are hungry to learn
young and hungry
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Starving

starvation
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Hungry

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved.
a hungry soil
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Starving

the act of depriving of food or subjecting to famine;
the beseigers used starvation to induce surrender
they were charged with the starvation of children in their care
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Hungry

Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
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Starving

suffering from lack of food
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Hungry

Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
The cruel, hungry foam.
Cassius has a lean and hungry look.
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Hungry

Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
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Hungry

feeling hunger; feeling a need or desire to eat food;
a world full of hungry people
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Hungry

(usually followed by `for') extremely desirous;
athirst for knowledge
hungry for recognition
thirsty for informaton
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