Be hungry; go without food.

synonyms: hunger, starve.

Roget 819: be parsimonious etc. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.    drive a bargain, drive a hard bargain; cheapen, beat down; stop one hole in a sieve; have an itching palm, grasp, grab.    ... show more

Roget 956: fast, starve, clem^†, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey^†; make two bites of a cherry.   

Dutch: rammelen, doodhongeren, verhongeren

Deprive of food.

synonym: starve.

Dutch: uithongeren

Die of food deprivation:
— Many famished in the countryside during the drought.

synonym: starve.

Dutch: doodhongeren, verhongeren