Extremely hungry. Synonyms:esurient, famished, ravenous, starved."A ravenous boy" , "The family was starved and ragged" , "Fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"
... of parents who had labored hard all their days over the sharp-set stones of the various cities and the long, shadowless, weary roads of the two Flanders and of Brabant. He had been born to no other heritage than those of pain and of toil. He had been fed on curses and baptized with blows. Why not? It was a Christian ... — A Dog of Flanders • Louisa de la Rame)
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