half-starved in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

Translations for half-starved in the English»Spanish Dictionary

half- [Am hæf, Brit hɑːf] PREFIX

half-starved

medio muerto de hambre

half-glimpsed

entrevisto

half-yearly reports

informes mpl semestrales

Translations for half-starved in the Spanish»English Dictionary

desesperado² (desesperada) N m (f)

come como un desesperado

he eats as if he were half-starved inf

corrió como un desesperado

he ran like crazy o mad inf

corrió como un desesperado

he ran as if his life depended on it

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

The animal arrives half-starved, begging for food, but the brat cruelly sends him off to find some ants, though the anteater finds none.

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