Starve

Definition: Starve

Starve

Verb

1. Be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!".

2. Die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought".

3. Deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners".

4. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "starve" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Synonyms: Starve

Cold

Verb: be cold. Adjective: shiver, starve, quake, shake, tremble, shudder, didder, quiver; freeze, freeze to death, perish with cold.

Fasting

Verb: fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hunger; dine with Duke Humphrey; make two bites of a cherry.

Parsimony

Verb: be parsimonious; Adjective: grudge, begrudge, stint, pinch, gripe, screw, dole out, hold back, withhold, starve, famish, live upon nothing, skin a flint.

Poverty

Verb: be poor; Adjective: want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth, have seen better days, go down in the world, come upon the parish; go to the dogs, go to wrack and ruin; not have a penny; (money), not have a shot in one's locker; beg one's bread; tirer le diable par la queue; run into debt; (debt).

Refrigeration

Verb: cool, fan, refrigerate, refresh, ice; congeal, freeze, glaciate; benumb, starve, pinch, chill, petrify, chill to the marrow, regelate, nip, cut, pierce, bite, make one's teeth chatter,

Crosswords: Starve

People starve, but we must not grow food. (The Killing Fields; writing credit: Bruce Robinson)

Men fight for me because if they do not, I throw them off my land and I starve their wives and children. (Braveheart; writing credit: Randall Wallace)

Listen, you're job is to back me up, because you'd starve without me. And you, your job is to shut up! (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid; writing credit: William Goldman)

'Cause you can't starve us out (A Country Boy Can Survive (Y2K Verison); performing artist: Chad Brock)

Feed you faith, and your doubts will starve to death! (references; author: unknown)

They Didn't Starve Us Out: Industrial Cape Breton in the 1920s (1991)

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Books

• Aminogens: Feed the Muscle, Starve the Fat (Keats Good Health Guide Series) (reference)

• Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever: A Dictionary of Medical Folklore (reference)

• Feed the Muscle Starve the Fat: Get Lean, Fit, Healthy and Strong at Any Age (reference)

• Freedom to starve (reference)

• Starve the Beast: Join the Global Tax Revolt (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Speaker, migratory worker, leader in the cotton strike, at Conference to Aid Agricultural Organization (Steinbeck Committee), Bakersfield, California. Saying: "Brother, 'Hits pick seventy-five cent cotton or starve. Brother, 'hits pick seventy-five cent c. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Crow Butte." Near Ft. Robinson, Neb. and F.E. & M.V. R.R. -- In battle, the Indians drove the "Crows" up on the mountain and camped on the only approach, intending to kill or starve their enemy. The "Crows" killed and skinned one of their ponies. The hid. Credit: Library of Congress.

This is what God gives us - what are you giving so that others may live? Eat less wheat, meat, fats, sugar - send more to Europe or they will starve / / A. Hendee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

This is what God gives us - what are you giving so that others may live? Eat less wheat, meat, fats, sugar - send more to Europe or they will starve / / A. Hendee. Credit: Library of Congress.

Don't waste food while others starve! / L.C. Clinker & M.J. Dwyer ; Heywood Strasser & Voigt Litho. Co. N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But supposing the charge and damages of the war are to be made up to the conqueror, to the utmost farthing; and that the children of the vanquished, spoiled of all their father's goods, are to be left to starve and perish; yet the satisfying of what shall, on this score, be due to the conqueror, will scarce give him a title to any country he shall conquer: for the damages of war can scarce amount to the value of any considerable tract of land, in any part of the world, where all the land is possessed, and none lies waste. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Starve your canaries.

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Civil Liberties

Morocco

In 2000 the Government had permitted publication of "The Unachieved Past" and "They Even Starve Rats," also about life and torture in the country's prisons. (references)

Human Rights

Guinea

A former prisoner reported that without this assistance, those who do not have families or friends would starve to death. (references)

Turkey

In November and December 2000, hundreds of prisoners, mostly affiliated with far-left terrorist groups, went on hunger strikes to protest F-type prisons, and claimed that they intended to starve themselves to death. (references)

Women

Kuwait

In September the courts sentenced one noncitizen to deportation for life for raping a housemaid, while another noncitizen was sentenced to 7 years imprisonment, to be followed by deportation, after beating his Asian maid and then locking her in a room to starve her until she would have sex with him. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "starve": line starve ♦ starve out ♦ starve to death. Additional references.

Ending with "starve": Hunger-starve.

Albanian

vuaj urie, ngordh urie, i mohoj, e lë pa ngrënë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مات جوعا, ‏حرم (abridge, ban, be bereaved, be forbidden, bereave, contraband, debar, deny, deprive, disable, dispossess, divest, excommunicate, forbade, forbid, geld, interdict, inviolable, outlaw, prohibit, proscribe, restrain, rob, sacred, sanctuary, suppress, wife), ‏عانى الجوع, ‏جاع (hunger). (various references)

Bulgarian 

уморявам от глад, умирам от студ, умирам от глад, убивам (account for, assassinate, dispose of, do in, end, finish, fix, kill, lay out, liquidate, murder, pip, polish off, pop off, pot, push off, put away, put to death, quench, remove, rub out, shoot up, slay, snuff out, strike down, wipe out, zap), гладувам (famish, hunger), лишавам (abridge, bereave, bereft, denude, drain, drain of, pinch, shear), подлагам на духовен глад. (various references)

Chinese 

飢�" (hunger, hungry), 挨饿 (starving). (various references)

Czech

vyhladovìt (emaciate, famish), trpìt velkou nouzí, hladovìt (go hungry). (various references)

Farsi 

قحطی زده شدن , گرسنگی کشیدن , گرسنگی دادن (Hunger), ازگرسنگی مردن . (various references)

Finnish

nääntyä nälkään. (various references)

French

affamer. (various references)

German

verhungern (be starving, clem, die of starvation, famish, starvation, to clem, to die of hunger, to famish, to starve), hungern (famish, go hungry, go without food, hunger, starvation, to famish, to go hungry, to hunger). (various references)

Greek 

λιμοκτονώ (famish). (various references)

Hebrew 

למות מרעב, ל�"רעיב, לרעוב (hunger), לסבול רעב. (various references)

Hungarian

koplal (fast, to fast, to feel the pinch, to go hungry, to hunger, to starve), éhezik (have a thin time of it, hunger, to famish, to go hungry, to hunger, to starve). (various references)

Indonesian

mati kelaparan. (various references)

Italian

morire di fame (clem, famish), far morire di fame (famish), affamare. (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"える (to be hungry, to starve, to thirst), 飢える (to starve). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

うえる (to be hungry, to grow, to plant, to starve, to thirst). (various references)

Korean 

굶주리십시�". (various references)

Manx

shanglanaghey, lheadey (starvation with cold), lheadaghey, goll neeu. (various references)

Pig Latin

arvestay

Portuguese

passar fome (famish), morrer de inanição, morrer de fome (clem), morrer � míngua, matar � fome, fazer passar fome a, estar esfomeado (hunger). (various references)

Romanian

pieri de foame, muri de foame (die of hunger, starve to death), lipsi de (abridge, bereave, dispossess, disrobe), lãsa sã moarã de frig, flãmânzi (famish, go hungry), avea o foame de lup, înfometa (famish, hunger). (various references)

Russian 

голодать (fast), морить (exerminate), жаждать (covet, crave, hanker, yearn), изголодаться. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

umoriti glađu, umirati od gladi, naterati glađu, čeznuti (desire, die, long, pine, yearn). (various references)

Spanish

morir de hambre. (various references)

Swedish

svälta (famish, hunger), hungra (be hungry, hunger). (various references)

Turkish

sefalet çekmek, midesi kazınmak, mahrum etmek (abridge, con smb. out of, debar, debar from, deny, deprive, detain, dispossess, divest, divest smb. of, lose, mulct, oust, shear, spoil, stint), açlıktan kıvranmak (be pinched with hunger), açlıktan ölmek (be famishing, famish, starve to death), açlıktan öldürmek (famish, starve to death), aç olmak (be hungry, feel hollow, feel hungry, Raven), aç bırakmak (famish, hunger), çok acıkmak (be famishing). (various references)

Ukrainian

умирати від голоду, голодувати (famish, fast, hunger), бути дуже голодним. (various references)

Welsh

newynu (famish), llwgu (famish). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "starve": starved, starveling, starvelings, starver, starvers, starves. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Starve" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Atharva, Sarva, scarve, Scarvee, smarv, staive, staree, starey, starte, starvy, stava, staver, Stavro, strave, terve, Tsarev. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: averts, traves, vaster.

-1 letter: aster, avers, avert, rates, raves, saver, stare, stave, tares, tears, trave, verst, verts, vesta.

-2 letters: ares, arse, arts, ates, aver, aves, ears, east, eats, eras, erst, etas, rase, rate, rats, rave, rest, rets, revs, sate, save, sear, seat, sera, seta, star, tare, tars, tavs, tear, teas, tsar, vars, vase, vast, vats, vera.

+1 letter: adverts, bravest, gravest, harvest, servant, starved, starver, starves, taverns, thraves, travels, varlets, vastier, veritas, versant, vestral.

+2 letters: harvests, levators, outraves, overacts, overcast, overeats, overfast, overpast, oversalt, overstay, overtask, privates, servants, starvers, stravage, tavernas, traverse, travesty, travoise, tsarevna, variates, varments, vaulters, vaunters, ventrals, versants, vestiary, vestural, veterans, viatores, vibrates, virgates, vitamers, votaress, votaries.