Synonyms for starve
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1. starve

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

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

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1. starve, hunger, famishverb

   be hungry; go without food

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

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

2. starve, famishverb

   die of food deprivation

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

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

3. starve, famishverb

   deprive of food

   "They starved the prisoners"

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

4. crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lustverb

   have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, crave, thirst, famish

   Antonyms:
   feed, be full, give

5. starveverb

   deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

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

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   feed, be full, give

Matched Categories

1. • Deprive
   • Desire
   • Die

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1. enfamish

   as a verb

   Submitted by anonymous on February 28, 2020  

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1. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   perish (especially with hunger)

2. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   kill with hunger, starve to death

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1. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   famish

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1. List of paraphrases for "starve":

   hungry, starvation

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How to use starve in a sentence?

1. Sharuf Khan:

   Brokers told our relatives to send the money and beat us when we were on the phone. They're very bad people, there's little to eat here. Some people starve. Many are sick.

2. Tendayi Chimukako:

   There are no jobs, even the food is hard to get, if I go back to Zimbabwe I will starve.

3. Margaret Mead:

   Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

4. Geoff LeBaron:

   People just adore them, when people harass them, it's to the detriment of the birds. It can cause them to spend more energy and push them over the edge. If they are starving already, it can cause them to starve to death.

5. Anna Garlin Spencer:

   No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems.