Definition of half-starved in US English:

adjective

• Very poorly fed; malnourished.

  ‘a half-starved prisoner’

  ‘people with thin, half-starved bodies’

  More example sentences

  • ‘So, the already sick and half-starved men grew steadily weaker.’
  • ‘He died in 1948, impoverished, half-starved, and all but forgotten.’
  • ‘We still have a mid-1890s picture of half-starved Abraham, an army drummer boy, standing in a Czarist uniform.’
  • ‘Under the scorching sun, she looked half-starved, exhausted.’
  • ‘"I wonder if all we have done is create a nation of half-starved beggars," he says.’
  • ‘A distinguished foreign visitor, France's Prince Napoleon, inspected both armies and reported that the rebels numbered about 60 000 and were "ragged, dirty and half-starved."’
  • ‘Who decided that women were to be visually flawless, half-starved twigs in order to be acceptable?’
  • ‘Further investigation revealed that the bird was blind, not to mention half-starved.’
  • ‘I found survivors, twenty-three children, half-starved, huddled in closets and basements, hiding.’
  • ‘Six days later, scraped, bruised, and half-starved, they found help in a small village thirty miles away.’