starve

Verb
  1. Be hungry;
    Go without food (synset 201190677)
    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
    is a type of: hurt, suffer - feel pain or be in pain
    same as: famish, hunger
  2. Die of food deprivation (synset 201190070)
    "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
    is a type of: buy the farm, cash in one's chips, choke, conk, croak, decease, die, drop dead, exit, expire, give-up the ghost, go, kick the bucket, pass, pass away, perish, pop off, snuff it - pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life
    same as: famish
  3. Deprive of food (synset 201190273)
    "They starved the prisoners"
    causes: famish, hunger, starve - be hungry; go without food
    is a type of: deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
    same as: famish
    verb group: starve - deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
  4. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for (synset 201191018)
    is a type of: desire, want - feel or have a desire for; want strongly
    same as: crave, hunger, lust, thirst
  5. Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering (synset 201190481)
    "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
    is a type of: deprive - keep from having, keeping, or obtaining
    verb group: famish, starve - deprive of food

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