• Starving

    Pronunciation

    • Rhymes: -ɑː(r)vɪŋ

    Verb

    starving
    1. Present participle of starve
      • 2013-06-07, Joseph Stiglitz, Globalisation is about taxes too, It is time the international community faced the reality: we have an unmanageable, unfair, distortionary global tax regime. It is the starving of the public sector which has been pivotal in America no longer being the land of opportunity – with a child's life prospects more dependent on the income and education of its parents than in other advanced countries.

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    Noun

    starving

    (plural starvings)
    1. starvation
      • 1868, Margaret Carrington, Ab-Sa-Ra-Ka, Land of Massacre... surely there have been atrocities which demanded of the white man the punishment of the evil-doer; but far more have been the starvings and the flights and the extinguishments which have visited the Indian, for the offence of living ...
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