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Starve

verb

(past & past part. starved; pres. part. starving)

Be hungry; go without food. Synonyms: famish, hunger. Antonym: be full.

Die of food deprivation. Synonym: famish. "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

Deprive of food. Synonym: famish. Antonym: feed.

Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for. Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst.

Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering. "The engine was starved of fuel"

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"Starve" Quotes from Famous Books

... may be objected that this would starve the sky pilots. But why should it do anything of the kind? Have they no faith! Must all the faith be on our side? Should they not practise a little of what they preach? God tells them to pray for their daily bread, and no doubt he would ...

— Flowers of Freethought - (First Series) • George W. Foote

... tired. All her buoyant life seemed to settle to a level where she must foster the youth of others and starve her own. ...

— Country Neighbors • Alice Brown

... can you say that, when they are so very poor, and when every one of them is the proud kind that would simply rather starve than go after their turkey and things! That's why we girls take them to ...

— The Tangled Threads • Eleanor H. Porter

... up, and it is right that they should. There is no reason why the girl at work at a loom should starve just that your wife should save a cent or two a yard on her gingham dress. Wages must go up, and ...

— A Man of Samples • Wm. H. Maher

... certainly ought to have made some better provision," continued Lord Stapledean. "But he has not done so; and it seems to me, that unless something is arranged, your mother and her children will starve. Now, you are ...

— The Bertrams • Anthony Trollope

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