Starve

Quick meaning: Starve is a verb meaning (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

Meaning

(intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

More Meanings

1. (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
2. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
3. (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
4. (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
5. (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
6. (transitive, dated) To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
7. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.

Example Sentences

The uncaring parents starved the child of love.

I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.

If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.

"When all of you starve to death, Shasta, don't come crying to me, that's all."

Word Forms

• starves
• starving
• starved
• starven
• starvest
• starvedst
• starveth

Synonyms for starve

Depending on context, synonyms include famish, lust, crave, hunger, thirst.

Antonyms for starve

Common opposites include give, grub, feed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hunger, crave, lust, thirst, starvation, famish.

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