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starve

starve
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [stahrv]
    • /stɑrv/
    • /stɑːv/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [stahrv]
    • /stɑrv/

Definitions of starve word

  • verb without object starve to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. 1
  • verb without object starve to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger. 1
  • verb without object starve to suffer from extreme poverty and need. 1
  • verb without object starve to feel a strong need or desire: The child was starving for affection. 1
  • verb without object starve Chiefly British Dialect. to perish or suffer extremely from cold. 1
  • verb without object starve Obsolete. to die. 1

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Origin of starve

First appearance:

before 1000
One of the 6% oldest English words
before 1000; Middle English sterven, Old English steorfan to die; cognate with German sterben

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Starve

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

starve popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

starve usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for starve

verb starve

  • abstain — If you abstain from something, usually something you want to do, you deliberately do not do it.
  • diet — the legislative body of certain countries, as Japan.
  • famish — (obsolete, transitive) To starve (to death); to kill or destroy with hunger.
  • famishing — Present participle of famish.
  • fast — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.

Antonyms for starve

verb starve

  • angeled — one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
  • angeling — one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
  • apprize — to give notice to; inform; advise (often followed by of): to be apprised of the death of an old friend.
  • atrophied — exhibiting or affected with atrophy; wasted; withered; shriveled: an atrophied arm; an atrophied talent.
  • atrophying — Also, atrophia [uh-troh-fee-uh] /əˈtroʊ fi ə/ (Show IPA). Pathology. a wasting away of the body or of an organ or part, as from defective nutrition or nerve damage.

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