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. Somkid Janchompoo:

   I will worship these sacred rice grains and I will give some to my relatives and neighbors, because they are considered auspicious, we worship it so that we will be blessed and will never starve.

2. Kim Do-hoon:

   Kim Jong Un has been promoting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fishing boats going out, but North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift, and fishermen starve to death.

3. Amy Sakho:

   They leave the infants out in the middle of the forest to starve to death or get eaten by wild animals, others strangle them or throw them in the septic tank.

4. 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.

5. Veronica Bedico:

   All of those things have allowed us to survive, and not starve.