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Synonyms for starve
stɑrvstarve
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
Princeton's WordNet
starve, hunger, famishverb
be hungry; go without food
"Let's eat--I'm starving!"
starve, famishverb
die of food deprivation
"The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
starve, famishverb
deprive of food
"They starved the prisoners"
crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lustverb
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
starveverb
deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
"he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
Editors Contribution
enfamish
as a verb
Dictionary of English Synonymes
starveverb
Synonyms:
perish (especially with hunger)starveverb
Synonyms:
kill with hunger, starve to death
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
starveverb
Synonyms:
famish
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List of paraphrases for "starve":
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Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#272 | check | |
#7367 | refuse | |
#7851 | deny | |
#8710 | hungry | |
#9424 | restrict | |
#9624 | hunger | |
#13567 | lust | |
#22042 | thirst | |
#23666 | crave | |
#24596 | starvation | |
#28795 | stint | |
#30094 | restrain | |
#31211 | disappoint | |
#37778 | starve | |
#148246 | tantalize |
How to use starve in a sentence?
Im not going to see them starve.
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.
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.
If you stay at home, you'll just starve to death.
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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