gone hungry
Experienced food lack
Gone hungry means to have experienced hunger, typically from lack of food rather than by choice.
The phrase often appears in discussions of poverty or food insecurity: No child should ever go hungry.
It can also describe voluntary deprivation: I've gone hungry before to make sure my kids ate.
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
- starvingSuffering extreme hunger
- privationLack of necessities
- skipped mealsFood occasions passed over
- famishedIntensely, painfully hungry
empty stomach · underfed · suffering · food insecurity · rationing · needy · hand to mouth · breadline · malnutrition · food deserts · impoverished · distress · destitute · affliction · misery · indigent · fasting · dispossessed