Empty and Starved

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Empty adjective - Feeling a desire or need for food.

Usage example: as the long car trip wore on, we all started to feel a little empty

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Starved and empty are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Starved" instead an adjective "Empty".

Nearby Words: emptiness, emptying, emptily

Starved adjective - Feeling a desire or need for food.

Usage example: after that long soccer practice, the children were really starved

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Empty and starved are semantically related. You can use "Empty" instead an adjective "Starved".

Nearby Words: starve, starvation, starving

However, Mac doesn't see anything wrong with his life - he prefers Telex to face-to-face interaction - but after spending time in Ferness, he realizes his life is quite empty and starved.

Source: Film / Local Hero
A famous Hallowe'en Garfield story showed that the rest of the series is a hallucination experienced by the title character as he starved to death in an empty house.

Source: Dying Dream
Set in space apparently just to mess with our heads.Muscroft and Ashby are a pair of not-very-well-known comedians, currently working the "Road to Mars", a term for the great empty spaces past the orbit of Mars, where the sparsely scattered population is starved for entertainment.

Source: Literature / The Road to Mars

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