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starve

verb

1 starve

Be hungry; go without food.

synonyms: famish, hunger.

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

Roget 383: be cold etc. adj.; shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.    ... show more

Roget 385: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, ... show more

Roget 804: be poor etc. adj.; want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny ... show more

Roget 819: be parsimonious etc. adj.; grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, ... show more

Dutch: rammelen, doodhongeren, verhongeren

2 starve

Die of food deprivation:
— The political prisoners starved to death.

synonym: famish.

Dutch: doodhongeren, verhongeren

3 starve

Deprive of food:
— They starved the prisoners.

synonym: famish.

Dutch: uithongeren

4 starve

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst.

Dutch: een sterk verlangen hebben, smachten, lusten

5 starve

Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering.


Moby thesaurus: OD, annihilate, asphyxiate, be in want, be killed, be pinched, be poor, be ravenous, begrudge, bereave of life, carry away, carry off, chloroform, choke, cut down, cut off, deprive of life, destroy, dispatch, dispose of ... show more.

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