starve

Meaning of starve

verb
  1. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  2. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. To be very hungry.
    Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
  4. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  5. To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
    The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
  6. To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
  7. (especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

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  • It is a verb.
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Hyphenation of starve

starve

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 6 chars.
  • starve is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

starve synonyms

Meaning hunger:

hunger, famish

Meaning famish:

famish

Meaning crave:

crave, hunger, thirst, lust

Translation of starve

Anagrams of starve

averts, Evarts, Servat, staver, strave, tavers, traves, vaster, versta, Vestra

Words that rhyme with starve

becarve, carve, forcarve, incarve, recarve, undercarve, Algarve, Harve, wharve, larve, Marve, parve, bestarve, tarve, varve, swarve, warve

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