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