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starve
1. be hungry;
go without food (Freq. 4)
- Let's eat--I'm starving!
• Syn:
hunger, famish
• Ant:
be full
• Derivationally related forms:
hunger (for: hunger), starvation
• Hypernyms:
suffer, hurt
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Somebody ----s PP
2. die of food deprivation (Freq. 3)
- The political prisoners starved to death
- Many famished in the countryside during the drought
• Syn:
famish
• Hypernyms:
die, decease, perish, go, exit,
pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm,
buy the farm, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke,
croak, snuff it
• Verb Frames:
- Something ----s
- Somebody ----s
3. deprive of food (Freq. 1)
- They starved the prisoners
• Syn:
famish
• Ant:
feed
• Derivationally related forms:
starvation, starving
• Hypernyms:
deprive
• Cause:
hunger, famish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s somebody
4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
• Syn:
crave, hunger, thirst, lust
• Derivationally related forms:
lust (for: lust), thirst (for: thirst), hunger (for: hunger), craving (for: crave)
• Hypernyms:
desire, want
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- Somebody ----s something (for: crave)
5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
- he is starving her of love
- The engine was starved of fuel
• Hypernyms:
deprive
• Verb Group:
famish
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody
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