meaning of "Go hungry"

[Hohert]

Hi, would you please take a look at this and make it clear?

Which is the right meaning of "go hungy"?
a. be(stay) hungry.
b. become hungy.
c. either (according to the context).

Thanks
Hohert

[Narayanan Krishnaswamy]

'Go hungry' means to go without food.
It may be used when you want to express the idea that the person wanted to complete the work rather than stop for food.
You may prefer to 'go hungry' when you are somewhat late to stopping for food and getting delayed further.

[babyblue]

Thanks, and sorry for my blunt question.
This may be an example sentence;
"Because of the prolonged drought, the animals went hungry."

In such context, does "went hungry" mean "became hungry", or "were(stayed) hungry"?

[Alan]

In this context it means that the animals had nothing to eat and were therefore in a sense forced to be hungry as a consequence. There is here the sense of having no choice but to be hungry.
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[Narayanan Krishnaswamy]

Because she did not have enough for all, she made the children eat and went hungry.

[Alan]

I can't really see the point of this sentence. At the same time : she made the children eat and went hungry is not a happy grammatical construction because it suggests that eat and went are both dependent on made, which is obviously not the case. Better perhaps if you want to add a further example to what I've already written, you could write: She made the children eat while she herself went hungry.
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