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STARVE: Synonyms and Related Words. What is Another Word for STARVE?

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Need another word that means the same as “starve”? Find 8 synonyms and 30 related words for “starve” in this overview.

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Starve as a Verb
Definitions of "Starve" as a verb
Synonyms of "Starve" as a verb (8 Words)
Usage Examples of "Starve" as a verb
Associations of "Starve" (30 Words)

The synonyms of “Starve” are: famish, crave, hunger, lust, thirst, empty, hollow, faint from hunger

Starve as a Verb

Definitions of "Starve" as a verb

According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “starve” as a verb can have the following definitions:

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.
Deprive of something necessary.
Suffer or die or cause to suffer or die from hunger.
Force someone out of (a place) or into (a specified state) by starvation.
Be freezing cold.
Deprive of food.
Feel very hungry.
Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering.
Be hungry; go without food.
Die of food deprivation.

Synonyms of "Starve" as a verb (8 Words)

crave	Ask for. I must crave* your indulgence.*
empty	Leave behind empty move out of. The pub suddenly seemed to empty.
faint from hunger	Pass out from weakness, physical or emotional distress due to a loss of blood supply to the brain.
famish	Be extremely hungry. They had famished the city into surrender.
hollow	Make a hollow in. A tunnel was hollowed out in a mountain range.
hunger	Feel or suffer hunger. He hungered for a sense of self worth.
thirst	Feel the need to drink. An opponent thirsting for revenge.

Usage Examples of "Starve" as a verb

She left her animals to starve.
The Royalists were starved out after eleven days.
The engine was starved of fuel.
I don't know about you, but I'm starving.
For a while she had considered starving herself.
The political prisoners starved to death.
Seven million starved to death.
The arts are being starved of funds.
German U-boats hoping to starve Britain into submission.
They starved the prisoners.
Pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here.

Associations of "Starve" (30 Words)

beg	Acquire food or money from someone by begging. I beg* you to stop.*
covet	Wish, long, or crave for (something, especially the property of another person. She covets her sister s house.
crave	Feel a powerful desire for (something. I must crave* your indulgence.*
craving	An intense desire for some particular thing. A craving* for chocolate.*
dearth	An acute insufficiency. There is a dearth* of evidence.*
deficit	The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required. New blood vessels bud out from the already dilated vascular bed to make up the nutritional deficit.
drought	A prolonged shortage. Farmers most affected by the drought* hope that there may yet be sufficient rain early in the growing season.*
famine	An acute insufficiency. Drought resulted in famine* throughout the region.*
famish	Be extremely hungry. They had famished the city into surrender.
hanker	Feel a strong desire for or to do something. He hankered after a lost golden age.
hunger	Feel or suffer hunger. When he had fasted forty days and forty nights he afterwards hungered.
indigence	A state of extreme poverty; destitution. He did valuable work towards the relief of indigence.
insufficiency	Lack of an adequate quantity or number. Renal insufficiency.
lack	Be without or deficient in. This soup lacks salt.
malnutrition	Lack of proper nutrition, caused by not having enough to eat, not eating enough of the right things, or being unable to use the food that one does eat. Nearly 67 of the country s population suffers from malnutrition.
mealtime	The time at which a meal is eaten. Family life seemed to revolve around mealtimes.
need	Have or feel a need for. I won t detain you for longer than I need.
needy	Needy people collectively. Those from needy* backgrounds.*
pauperism	A state of extreme poverty or destitution.
penury	The state of being very poor; extreme poverty. He couldn t face another year of penury.
ravening	Living by preying on other animals especially by catching living prey. Ravening creditors.
scarcity	The state of being scarce or in short supply; shortage. A time of scarcity.
shortage	The property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required. A shortage* of hard cash.*
shortfall	A deficit of something required or expected. They are facing an expected 10 billion shortfall* in revenue.*
slake	Cause to heat and crumble by treatment with water. Restaurants worked to slake* the Italian obsession with food.*
thirst	A feeling of needing or wanting to drink something. He is oblivious to all the thirst* around him.*
unquenchable	Not able to be quenched. His enthusiasm was unquenchable.
want	Hunt or look for want for a particular reason. For want* of a nail the shoe was lost.*
yearn	Be filled with compassion or warm feeling. No fellow spirit yearned towards her.
yearning	Involving or expressing yearning. A yearning* hope.*