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Showing words for STARVE using the English dictionary

6 Letter Words for Starve

averts, starve, staver, strave, tavers, traves, vaster, versta

5 Letter Words for Starve

arest, arets, aster, astre, avers, avert, earst, rates, raves, reast, resat, saver, serta, stare, stave, stear, strae, tares, tarse, tarve, taser, taver, tears, teras, trave, treas, vares, vates, versa, verst, verts, vesta

4 Letter Words for Starve

ares, aret, arte, arts, astr, ates, aver, aves, ears, east, eats, eras, erat, erst, etas, rast, rate, rats, rave, rest, rets, revs, sare, sart, sate, save, sear, seat, sert, serv, seta, star, ster, stra, stre, tare, tars, tave, tavs, tear, teas, tera, trav, tres, vaes, vare, vars, vase, vast, vats, vera, vers, vert, vest, veta, vets

3 Letter Words for Starve

aer, aes, are, ars, art, ase, ast, ate, ave, ear, eas, eat, era, ers, ert, esr, est, eta, ras, rat, rea, res, rev, rte, sar, sat, sav, sea, ser, set, sta, str, tar, tas, tav, tea, ter, tes, tra, trs, vae, var, vas, vat, ver, vet

Definitions for Starve

[1] to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
[2] to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger.
[3] to suffer from extreme poverty and need.
[4] to feel a strong need or desire: The child was starving for affection.
[5] Chiefly British Dialect . to perish or suffer extremely from cold.
[6] Obsolete . to die.
[7] to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.
[8] to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.
[9] to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
[10] Chiefly British Dialect . to cause to perish, or to suffer extremely, from cold.
[11] to die or cause to die from lack of food
[12] to deprive (a person or animal) or (of a person, etc) to be deprived of food
[13] (intr) informal to be very hungry
[14] (foll by of or for ) to deprive or be deprived (of something necessary), esp so as to cause suffering or malfunctioning the engine was starved of fuel
[15] (tr foll by into ) to bring (to) a specified condition by starving to starve someone into submission
[16] archaic to be or cause to be extremely cold

Words related to Starve

quit, renounce, refrain, withhold, forgo, cease, shun, require, demand, abstain, forbear, decline, refuse, spurn, avoid, eschew, stop, fast, abjure, curb

Words nearby Starve

startle reflex, startling, startup, starvation, starvation wages, starve, starveling, starwort, stary oskol, stash, stashie

Origin of Starve

before 1000; Middle English sterven, Old English steorfan to die; cognate with German sterben

Other words from Starve

half-starved , adjective
half-starv·ing , adjective
self-starved , adjective
un·starved , adjective

Word origin for Starve

Old English steorfan to die; related to Old Frisian sterva to die, Old High German sterban to die

Synonyms for Starve

cease, forgo, pass up, quit, refrain, renounce, shun, withhold, abjure, abnegate, avoid, constrain, curb, decline, eschew, evade, fast, forbear, pass, refuse, spurn, stop, deny oneself, do without, fence-sit, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, take the cure, take the pledge