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🍽️ Extreme hunger 🍽️ To starve
to clem

to clem

9.9
To be very hungry because you have no food
  • verb
  • Archaic
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  • The children would clem if not for the charity's daily meals.

Examples

  • He said he would rather work than clem through another harsh winter.

  • Don't clem yourself before dinner!

  • Villagers used to clem during the long droughts in the past.

  • The children were cleming after playing all day.

  • The old folk in the village often worried that they would clem during the harsh winters.

  • If they don't find food soon, the stray dogs may clem in the cold.

  • After days without a proper meal, he feared he might clem before help arrived.

Synonyms

to starve
vsto clem
328 1.7

To be very hungry and possibly die from no food

is the dialectal or informal word for the same hungry experience
to famish
vsto clem
  • Archaic
15 9.2

To become very weak because you have no food

is a dialectal or informal word for hunger usually without extreme danger

Antonyms

to feed
870 1.0

To give food to a person, animal, or plant

to satiate
9 7.1

To make someone feel they have had enough to eat or drink

How Hungry

to starve
328 1.7
to clem
  • Archaic
9.9

Surface Forms

clem infinitive
clemmed past
clemmed past participle
cleming present participle
clems third person singular

Etymology

The verb clem comes from the same old dialect use and means 'to suffer from hunger' or 'to starve', so to clem is simply to go hungry and feel that empty, sharp ache in your stomach.