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Having no food, without food. Now rare and archaic.
Of times or places: Marked by famine or scarcity of food; famine-stricken. the hungry forties, the decade beginning in 1840, characterized in the…
Deprived of or lacking bread; having no bread to eat; (hence more generally) having no food.