Illustration: Behind a shuttered neighborhood workshop, a severely underweight stray cat struggles to stand beside an overturned, completely empty food bowl. Its ribs show through its scruffy coat, and its hind legs barely support it.

JLPT N2verbLevel estimated by Bebop

飢うえる

ueru

to starve

Example sentences

彼かれは飢うえた者ものに食しょくを与あたえた。
He furnished food to the hungry.
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世界せかいでは多おおくの人ひとが飢うえている。
A lot of people are starving in the world.
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あの飢うえた子供こどもたちを思おもう心こころが痛いたむ。
My heart aches for those starving children.
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Kanji in 飢

飢hungry; starveOnキKunうえる

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