starve

starve is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as intransitive verb, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To die; to perish. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. intransitive verb. To die; to perish.
2. intransitive verb. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
3. intransitive verb. To perish or die with cold.
4. transitive verb. To destroy with cold.
5. transitive verb. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.
6. transitive verb. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
7. transitive verb. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.
8. transitive verb. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
9. verb. die of food deprivation

   "The political prisoners starved to death"

   "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

   Synonyms: famish

10. verb. deprive of food

    "They starved the prisoners"

    Synonyms: famish

11. verb. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

    "he is starving her of love"

    "The engine was starved of fuel"

12. verb. be hungry; go without food

    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

    Synonyms: famish, hunger

13. verb. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

    Synonyms: crave, hunger, lust, thirst

Synonyms

famish, hunger, crave, lust, thirst

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in starve:

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

Common word forms

starved, starver, starves, starving

Words from these letters

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