starve
(verb)
verb
1. be hungry; go without food
Similar word(s): famish, hunger
Definition categories: consumption, hurt, suffer
2. die of food deprivation
- The political prisoners starved to death
Similar word(s): famish
Definition categories: consumption, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, exit, expire, go, pass, perish
3. deprive of food
- They starved the prisoners
Similar word(s): famish
Definition categories: consumption, deprive
4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
Similar word(s): crave, hunger, lust, thirst
Definition categories: consumption, desire, want
5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- The engine was starved of fuel
Definition categories: consumption, deprive
Sentences with starve as a verb:
- They starved the child until it withered away.
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.