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adj. - Needing nourishment.

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Usage examples (9)
  • They had been turned out of work, packed in cattle-trucks, and had come down in sun by day and icy wind by night, empty-bellied, to pack off home again.
  • He who had once tramped the pavements of the capital as a vagabond, unwashed and empty-bellied, had now assumed the powers of the once mighty Austrian Hapsburg emperors,...
  • Sir PETER, with a very proper admiration of the pleasures of life, philosophises with a full stomach on the ignorance and wickedness of empty-bellied humanity; and Mr....
  • There would be no use to fill the cans at present or start the conveyer to carry the empty-bellied fish to the cannery floor.
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