Synonyms for starve
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1. starve

   Synonyms:
   check, deny, disappoint, refuse, restrain, restrict, stint, straiten, tantalize

   Antonyms:
   cloy, content, fill, glut, sate, satiate, satisfy, suffice, surfeit

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1. starve, hunger, famishverb

   be hungry; go without food

   "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

2. starve, famishverb

   die of food deprivation

   "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

3. starve, famishverb

   deprive of food

   "They starved the prisoners"

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   give, be full, feed

4. crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lustverb

   have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, crave, thirst, famish

   Antonyms:
   feed, be full, give

5. starveverb

   deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

   "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

   Synonyms:
   lust, hunger, famish, thirst, crave

   Antonyms:
   feed, be full, give

Matched Categories

1. • Deprive
   • Desire
   • Die

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1. enfamish

   as a verb

   Submitted by anonymous on February 28, 2020  

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1. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   perish (especially with hunger)

2. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   kill with hunger, starve to death

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1. starveverb

   Synonyms:
   famish

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1. List of paraphrases for "starve":

   hungry, starvation

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How to use starve in a sentence?

1. Al Sharpton:

   In the state jails, you eat what they give you or you starve... it is absolute punishment and punitive beyond the regardless for human rights and dignity, in federal, they have different protocols, and they ask if you have any dietary or religious preferences.

2. Margaret Mead:

   Our treatment of both older people and children reflects the value we place on independence and autonomy. We do our best to make our children independent from birth. We leave them all alone in rooms with the lights out and tell them, Go to sleep by yourselves. And the old people we respect most are the ones who will fight for their independence, who would sooner starve to death than ask for help.

3. Kim Do-hoon:

   Kim Jong Un has been promoting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fishing boats going out, but North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift, and fishermen starve to death.

4. Mike Chinoy:

   This is a regime that let two million of its own people starve to death in the 1990s, they are not going to be bothered if the ordinary people of North Korea suffer because [new] sanctions hurt the economy.

5. Press Secretary Josh Earnest:

   Those goals apparently include depraved tactics like trying to starve innocent civilians into submission, bombing hospitals and playgrounds, targeting them.