starve
verb
1 starve
Be hungry; go without food.
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
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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