Synonyms for starved
starved

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1. starved

   Synonyms:
   lean, thin, meagre, attenuated, famished, hungry, emaciated, ill-fed, ill-conditioned

   Antonyms:
   fat, plump, well-conditioned, well-fed

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1. starved, starvingadjective

   suffering from lack of food

   Synonyms:
   ravenous, esurient, sharp-set, famished, starving

   Antonyms:
   nourished, thirsty

2. famished, ravenous, sharp-set, starved, esurientadjective

   extremely hungry

   "they were tired and famished for food and sleep"; "a ravenous boy"; "the family was starved and ragged"; "fell into the esurient embrance of a predatory enemy"

   Synonyms:
   starving, famished, rapacious, avid, sharp-set, greedy, esurient, ravenous, voracious, devouring(a), wolfish, edacious, ravening

   Antonyms:
   thirsty, nourished

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1. List of paraphrases for "starved":

   famished, hungry

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How to use starved in a sentence?

1. Sir Walter Scott:

   To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.

2. Abdul Ahad:

   My other two children starved in Baghouz.

3. Unknown:

   We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

4. William Cobbett:

   To suppose such a thing possible as a society, in which men, who are able and willing to work, cannot support their families, and ought, with a great part of the women, to be compelled to lead a life of celibacy, for fear of having children to be starved; to suppose such a thing possible is monstrous.

5. Sri da Avabhas:

   Evelyn slapped Raymond on the back with a laugh. You must be starved old friend. Come into my apartments, and we'll suffer through a deep breakfast of pure sunlight.