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8 Dec 2016
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What is the difference between starving and hungry ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
What is the difference between starving and hungry ?Feel free to just provide example sentences.
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- Turkish
Starving is so so hungry like die from hungry .
Hungry is normal feel.
- English (UK)
'I haven't eaten since lunch, I'm hungry.'
'I haven't eaten for a week, I'm starving'
- Simplified Chinese (China)
- English (UK)
@alaneng: 'starving' is also used casually to mean 'very hungry' for example
'I haven't eaten all day I'm starving!'
No problem :)
- Simplified Chinese (China)
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