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• n  someone who is starving (or being starved)

• As a preliminary they summoned to the Royal Palace in Madrid a starveling rabble of beggars from among whom were chosen by lot 13 men and 13 women.
• Last week they dropped again -to a lean six pages -with a starveling four in prospect.
• At first he turned to gimmicks to pull in crowds and feed his starveling team: greased pig chases before the start of a game; a mechanical rabbit popping up behind the umpire .