starved of
idiom
: not given enough of (something needed for one's emotional well-being)
Those children have been starved of attention.
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What began locally grew to a larger endeavor of creating a nonprofit to feed those in need up and down the 120-mile island chain, which was starved of its lifeblood tourism.
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
Her nose for injustice sniffs out scandalous truths, among both superrich oligarchs and public-welfare institutions like orphanages starved of sufficient funding.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 16 May 2025
The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
Researchers, whose findings were published in Nature in 2023, modeled that global temperatures could have dropped by nearly 30 degrees Fahrenheit as plants were starved of light for years on end.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2025
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David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 20 May 2025
Her nose for injustice sniffs out scandalous truths, among both superrich oligarchs and public-welfare institutions like orphanages starved of sufficient funding.
—Dennis Harvey, Variety, 16 May 2025
The easily preventable disease, declared eliminated in the U.S. in 2000, ripped through communities sprawling across more than 20 Texas counties in part because health departments were starved of the funding needed to run vaccine programs, officials say.
—Arkansas Online, 14 Apr. 2025
Researchers, whose findings were published in Nature in 2023, modeled that global temperatures could have dropped by nearly 30 degrees Fahrenheit as plants were starved of light for years on end.
—Max Bennett, Discover Magazine, 12 Apr. 2025
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“Starved of.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/starved%20of. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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