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. Abdul Ahad:

   My other two children starved in Baghouz.

2. Unknown:

   We are drowning in information and starved for knowledge.

3. Henry David Thoreau:

   Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitiches today to save nine tomorrow.

4. Milo Barham:

   The melting of ice sheets after Snowball Earth caused a dramatic rise in sea level, ultimately flooding the continents, driving a remarkable retreat of shorelines and the development of clearer ocean water, researchers have long been aware that the timing of Snowball Earth and the development of more complex life seem to have coincided, but no one has really thought about how the oceans being starved of sediment might have helped ancient organisms thrive in the oceans.

5. 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.