going hungry
Lacking any nourishment
Going hungry means not having enough food to eat, whether for a meal or over an extended period.
It emphasizes the experience of hunger rather than its cause: No child should go hungry.
The phrase often appears in discussions of poverty, food insecurity, or sacrifice: She went hungry so her kids could eat.
- empty stomachDigestive tract without food
- skipping mealsForgoing scheduled eating times
- malnutritionDisease from dietary inadequacy
- caloric deficitIntake below expenditure
- undernourishmentInsufficient dietary intake
stunting · starvation · nutrient deficiency · bare cupboard · food desert · shame · rationing · desperation · breadline · wasting · hopelessness · fatigue · food insecurity · fear · unemployment · soup kitchen · inequality · welfare dependency
- doing withoutfasting, rationing, skipping meals, abstaining, forgoing
- hungerstarving, starvation, famished, ravenous, appetite