(superl.) Feeling hunger; having a keen appetite; feeling uneasiness or distress from want of food; hence, having an eager desire.
(superl.) Showing hunger or a craving desire; voracious.
(superl.) Not rich or fertile; poor; barren; starved; as, a hungry soil.
Example Sentences:
(1) A considerably greater increase in the peak plasma OT concentration resulted when hungry foster litters of 6 pups were suckled after the mothers' own 6 pups had been suckled.
(2) As a strategy to reach hungry schoolchildren, and increase domestic food production, household incomes and food security in deprived communities, the GSFP has become a very popular programme with the Ghanaian public, and enjoys solid commitment from the government.
(3) It is right that the food banks feed those who would otherwise go hungry, offering a picture of a different kind of economy, though they can do little to address the causes of hunger.
(4) They are hungry for training, education, youth clubs, arts and sports opportunities, and mentoring advice.
(5) When asked if climate scientists get sick of being asked about records by headline hungry media, he graciously laughed, and said: "For a particular month there is very little significance.
(6) Some people say that anyone who wants to help homeless, hungry people should just make a financial donation to an established charity.
(7) We Libyans are just as hungry for a just and accountable government as our Tunisian brothers and sisters.
(8) Stevan Jovetic is hungry for more after his match-winning double strike for Manchester City against Liverpool.
(9) The relationship of the "digestive" and "hungry" electrical activities of the duodenum depended both on the compared type of potential and on the compared time periods.
(10) In addition, baseline levels of neural activity in attack suppressing brain areas prior to any brain stimulation were found to decrease when the cats were hungry and killing was facilitated and neural activity increased when the cats were on ad lib.
(11) Everyone's hungry and cold, they wouldn't even let people go to the toilet.
(12) These are all countries with people who go hungry but, were humanitarian need the only criterion for giving food aid, you might expect to see more countries from west Africa higher on the list, points out Rob Bailey, a fellow at Chatham House.
(13) He was hungry, he was cold, he couldn’t carry on – what else could we do?” She stops for a second, and leans down to caress Vito at her feet.
(14) Hungry but previously "prepared" for winter fleas lived at a temperature from 0 to 2 degrees not more than 376 days.
(15) But he added: “Whilst it is being rolled out, we must have the data to allow us to hold the DWP [Department for Work and Pensions] to account and suggest where improvements can be made.” Scrooge is at large on our hungry streets | Letters Read more The committee said it had been difficult to hold the department to account on benefit delays because of a lack of available data on the timeliness and accuracy of benefits for some disabled people and short-term benefit advance applications.
(16) Justin Welby said that it was “a tragedy” that hunger still existed in the UK in the 21st century and praised the work of charity food banks which he said were “striving to make life bearable for people who are going hungry”.
(17) The offering of food to the hungry animal, and subsequent brief feeding periods, were associated with marked accentuation of this theta activity.
(18) The samples from recently fed animals contained 28% less serotonin than those from hungry ones.
(19) The Trussell Trust has provided through its network of food banks emergency assistance for over 500,000 people since 2013 who are in financial crisis, who are going hungry who have been referred by more than 23,000 different professionals holding vouchers.
(20) There is of course a case for ensuring that children do not go hungry and thus lack concentration.
Starve
Definition:
(v. i.) To die; to perish.
(v. i.) To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
(v. i.) To perish or die with cold.
(v. t.) To destroy with cold.
(v. t.) To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
(v. t.) To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
(v. t.) To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
(v. t.) To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
Example Sentences:
(1) The disappearance of ribosomes in Escherichia coli cells starved for a carbon source was studied.
(2) Kimberley Carlile , aged four, was starved and beaten by her stepfather in Greenwich, east London, in 1986.
(3) Their defect in DNA degradation was shown not only after treatment by toluene but also in crude extracts after cell disintegration by ultrasonic and in untreated starved cultures.
(4) Serum starved BHK cells had low levels of all four deoxyribonucleoside triphosphates.
(5) Serum testosterone, luteinizing hormone (LH), testicular histology and ultrastructure were examined in 91 spontaneously diabetic BB, semi-starved, and control Wistar rats.
(6) This occurs with mitochondria obtained from normal, starved and streptozotocin-diabetic rats.
(7) Thus, the long stalks of Sk1 or phosphate-starved caulobacters are not merely a function of their longer doubling times.
(8) The ultrastructure of the water-clear cells of the parathyroid glands in the starved adult and senile animals almost resembled that of the control adult and senile animals.
(9) Pimozide administration did not alter the peak TRH-stimulated TSH response in either the normal animals or the starved animals.
(10) More than 120,000 people, most of them children, are at risk of starving to death next year in areas of Nigeria affected by the Boko Haram insurgency, the United Nations is warning.
(11) After administration of pivmecillinam (400 mg) with meal, Tasc was significantly delayed beyond the value obtained when the subjects were starved.
(12) No apparent difference was detected in the composition and saturation status of pooled starved plaque fluid from CF and CS individuals.
(13) When mammalian cells are starved for amino acids, the activity of the A amino acid transport system increases, a phenomenon called adaptive regulation.
(14) Exogenous spermidine extensively relaxed RNA synthesis in amino acid-starved cultures of 15 TAU.
(15) In other experiments histidine misincorporation for glutamine was measured in glutamine starved cells with normal levels of histidine-specific tRNA and cells overproducing this tRNA.
(16) In contrast, the metabolite profile in the soleus was consistent with activation of the glucose-fatty acid cycle in the starved rat during the recovery period after exercise.
(17) Madaya: residents of besieged Syrian town say they are being starved to death Read more The Syrian regime and Hezbollah have put Madaya under siege for more than six months now as a response to the siege of the northern towns of Fua and Kefraya by anti-regime forces.
(18) When fed ducklings were starved, fatty acid synthase mRNA decayed with a half-life of about 3 h. Therefore, the half-life for fatty acid synthase mRNA appeared to be little affected by feeding or starvation.
(19) Administration of dicarboxylic acids to starving rats decreased the concentration of ketone bodies in the blood.
(20) Infusion of 3-hydroxybutyrate into starved rats caused marked increases in the arteriovenous differences for lactate and both ketone bodies.