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(Definition of be gasping from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- (I'm so hungry), I could eat a horse idiom
- appetite noun (FOOD)
- eat like a horse idiom
- famine noun
- famished adjective
- hunger noun (NEED FOR FOOD)
- make sb's mouth water idiom
- munchies noun
- on an empty stomach idiom
- peckish adjective
- smack your lips idiom
- starvation noun
- starved adjective
- starving adjective (NO FOOD)
- thirst noun (NEED FOR DRINK)
- thirsty adjective (NEED FOR DRINK)
- undernourished adjective
- voracious adjective
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