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

  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

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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

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words1.0 / 1 vote

  1. starveverb

    Synonyms:
    famish

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  1. List of paraphrases for "starve":

    hungry, starvation

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Words popularity by usage frequency

rankingword
#272check
#7367refuse
#7851deny
#8710hungry
#9424restrict
#9624hunger
#13567lust
#22042thirst
#23666crave
#24596starvation
#28795stint
#30094restrain
#31211disappoint
#37778starve
#148246tantalize

How to use starve in a sentence?

  1. Talia Kirkland:

    Im not going to see them starve.

  2. Toby Daly-Engel:

    If the sharks disappear, the little fish explode in population, because nothings eating them, pretty soon, their food plankton, microorganisms, little shrimps all of that is gone, so all the little fish ultimately starve.

  3. Sarah Maria:

    Any time people obsess over a particular body part – its size, shape, or contouring, it is a breeding ground for body-image dissatisfaction, people who don’t have ab cracks feel like they should have them in order to be beautiful and then are inclined to starve themselves and workout obsessively in order to get one.

  4. Dejair Batista:

    If you stay at home, you'll just starve to death.

  5. Al Sharpton:

    In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences.


Translations for starve

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  • مات جوعًاArabic
  • галадацьBelarusian
  • гладувамBulgarian
  • hladovětCzech
  • llwguWelsh
  • verhungern, aushungernGerman
  • [[kuolla]] [[nälkä, nääntyä, nälkä, näännyttää, nälkiinnyttääFinnish
  • svøltaFaroese
  • être affamé, [[mourir]] de [[faim]], affamerFrench
  • éheztet, éhenhal, éhezikHungarian
  • 飢えさせる, 飢える, 餓死Japanese
  • 굶어죽다Korean
  • whakapuango, whakatikiMāori
  • rammelen, verhongeren, uithongeren, [[sterven]] [[van]] [[de]] [[honger]]Dutch
  • głodowaćPolish
  • esfomear, morrer, morrendo, faminto, estar, fome, dePortuguese
  • изголодаться, голодать, [[умирать]] [[от]] [[голод, проголодаться, чахнуть, [[морить]] [[голодRussian
  • hladovaťSlovak
  • stradatiSlovene
  • svälta, svulten, utsvultenSwedish
  • ఘోరకలి, ఆకలిచావు, చప్పిడికూడుTelugu
  • голодуватиUkrainian

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