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Antonyms for starve
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English Synonyms and Antonyms4.3 / 3 votes

  1. starve

    Antonyms:
    cloy, content, fill, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, suffice, surfeit

    Synonyms:
    check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, tantalize

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Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. starve, hunger, famishverb

    be hungry; go without food

    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

    Antonyms:
    give, be full, feed

    Synonyms:
    lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

  2. starve, famishverb

    die of food deprivation

    "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

    Antonyms:
    give, be full, feed

    Synonyms:
    lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

  3. starve, famishverb

    deprive of food

    "They starved the prisoners"

    Antonyms:
    give, be full, feed

    Synonyms:
    lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

  4. crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lustverb

    have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

    Antonyms:
    feed, be full, give

    Synonyms:
    lust, hunger, crave, thirst, famish

  5. starveverb

    deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

    "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

    Antonyms:
    feed, be full, give

    Synonyms:
    lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. starveverb

    Synonyms:
    famish

How to use starve in a sentence?

  1. Charles McDougall:

    Everyday in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion or it will be killed. Everyday in Africa, a lion wakes up. It knows it has to run faster than the slowest gazelle, or it will starve. It doesn’t matter if you’re the lion or a gazelle - when the sun comes up, you’d better be running.

  2. Yvonne DeBurgo:

    I think the government thinks that we should just either starve to death or freeze to death.

  3. Uncle Jacques:

    I didn’t need the Nazis to teach me how to starve.

  4. Charles Caleb Colton:

    Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

  5. Boris Johnson:

    Putin is squandering his dwindling resources on this pointless and barbaric war. He is bankrolling his ego at the expense of both the Ukrainian and Russian people, we need to starve the Putin regime of its funding.

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Words popularity by usage frequency

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#395content
#555give
#1293feed
#2291fill
#6680satisfy
#20545suffice
#36306glut
#37778starve
#60246sate
#121700surfeit
#145503satiate
#280664cloy

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