muerto de hambre

Spanish

Adjective

muerto de hambre (feminine muerta de hambre, masculine plural muertos de hambre, feminine plural muertas de hambre)

1. (idiomatic) starving, famished, very hungry
2. (idiomatic) down and out; poverty-stricken

Further reading

• “muerto, ta de hambre”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10