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Значения термина esurient на английском

Devouring or craving food in great quantities.

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Extremely hungry.

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Examples for "starved"
Examples for "starved"
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I have seen young women starved to the point of non existence.
Feminist dot com
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Then there's the idea to use sex-starved insects to follow bank robbers.
Wired
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Seven or eight hundred anemic, half-starved men armed with light infantry weapons.
The forgotten soldier
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There was an excited flush in his starved cheeks; his eyes shone.
The Honor of the Big Snows
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Those who cannot pay risk being beaten, starved, or forced into prostitution.
Reuters
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Twenty long minutes later, mighty Zeppelin returned to satiate their famished followers.
I’m With the Band
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Here these children were now, famished in the middle of a war.
The Guardian
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Open gates enable provisions to reach the half-famished dwellers within the walls.
The Little Lady of Lagunitas: A Franco-Californian Romance
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You must be famished, Mr. Langenau; pray go immediately to the dining-room.
Richard Vandermarck: A Novel
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This was the cry of the famished motherhood of a dying race.
The Heart of the Desert / Kut-Le of the Desert
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But I was wakeful now and my mind was sharp-set on many things.
Greenmantle
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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
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Bein' here all night, I expect ye be purty sharp-set, the whole on ye.
Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays; Or, Rescuing the Runaways
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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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Использование термина esurient на английском
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The clamourings of esurient Viennese-
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 12, 1919
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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
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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
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Esurient через время