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Discover Ludwig"half starved" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is extremely hungry and has not eaten enough to sustain themselves. It can also be used figuratively to describe someone who is very deprived or lacking in something necessary. Example: The young orphan boy was half-starved and desperately in need of a warm meal and a place to call home.
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Half starved while on a six-week forced march, he'd been about to throw in his chips.
Half starved and frozen, how did you survive, And how was no man lost while in your care?
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A Charlie Mulgrew corner which clipped the post was the closest to a goal in a first-half starved of chances.
A half-starved population.
Lions picked off half-starved stragglers.
In plain English, they are half-starved.
They were half-starved, diseased, and undeniably miserable.
See how skinny she is – half-starved, poor thing.
Scores more straggle in most days, many half-starved.
The Americans were welcomed by a desperate, half-starved crowd.
We had no dramatic encounters with a half-starved bear.
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