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Significados de esurient en inglés

Devouring or craving food in great quantities.

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      Extremely hungry.

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            Examples for "starved"
            1
            I have seen young women starved to the point of non existence.
            Feminist dot com
            2
            Then there's the idea to use sex-starved insects to follow bank robbers.
            Wired
            3
            Seven or eight hundred anemic, half-starved men armed with light infantry weapons.
            The forgotten soldier
            4
            There was an excited flush in his starved cheeks; his eyes shone.
            The Honor of the Big Snows
            5
            Those who cannot pay risk being beaten, starved, or forced into prostitution.
            Reuters
            1
            Twenty long minutes later, mighty Zeppelin returned to satiate their famished followers.
            I’m With the Band
            2
            Here these children were now, famished in the middle of a war.
            The Guardian
            3
            Open gates enable provisions to reach the half-famished dwellers within the walls.
            The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
            4
            You must be famished, Mr. Langenau; pray go immediately to the dining-room.
            Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
            5
            This was the cry of the famished motherhood of a dying race.
            The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
            1
            But I was wakeful now and my mind was sharp-set on many things.
            Greenmantle
            2
            Yonder Abbot is sharp-set, and I doubt whether letters will satisfy his appetite.
            The Lady of Blossholme
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            The face, sunk away to skin clinging on sharp-set bones, was turned in profile.
            The Emigrant Trail
            4
            Bein' here all night, I expect ye be purty sharp-set, the whole on ye.
            Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways
            5
            Perhaps it was their sharp-set appetites that made them think the food tasted unusually fine.
            The Boys of Columbia High on the Gridiron : or, the Struggle for...

            (Often followed by `for') ardently or excessively desirous.

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                  Uso de esurient en inglés
                  1
                  The clamourings of esurient Viennese-
                  Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919
                  2
                  Lowest of all are those whose esurient vanity, acting on a frivolous levity of mind, urges them to make Literature a plaything for display.
                  The Principles of Success in Literature
                  3
                  Oscar-theamiable, irresponsible, esurient Oscar-with no more sense of a picture than of the fit of a coat, has the courage of the opinions .
                  Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions — Volume 1
                  Colocaciones frecuentes
                  Esurient a través del tiempo