Starveling

Synonyms for "starveling" (61 found)

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Noun(5 words)
emaciatedemaciated personfamine victimgaunthunger victim

Related words (30)

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More general

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10 entries
beggardestitute classfamine victimgauntmarginalized grouppauperresource-poor cohortskinnyunderfed populacewasted

Collocations

9 entries
starveling childstarveling dietstarveling economystarveling householdstarveling lookstarveling massesstarveling populacestarveling populationstarveling refugees

Inflections

3 entries
more starvelingmost starvelingstarvelings

Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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If I hang, I'll make a fat pair of gallows; for if I hang, old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling.

Source: wiktionary

As for the starveling rebels of our region, they soon began to reappear in town, more starved and abject, their blackened rags hanging on them[…]

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[A] few meetings in the cape-broom, a starveling allowance of kisses in a very ill-advised publicity.

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