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looking like death warmed up
vs
starveling
looking like death warmed up
starveling
adj
Meagre; scanty.
Starving; suffering from starvation.
noun
One who is thin from lack of food.
How often have the words
looking like death warmed up
and
starveling
occurred in a corpus of books?
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