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starve

English

  1. 🔊 die of food deprivation
    “The political prisoners starved to death”
  2. 🔊 deprive of food
    “They starved the prisoners”
  3. 🔊 deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
    “he is starving her of love”
  4. 🔊 be hungry
    “Let's eat--I'm starving!”
  5. 🔊 have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

Spanish

  1. 🔊 desnutrirse to starve
  2. 🔊 morir de hambre to starve, to be starving, to be famished

Similar words

famish famish hunger famish crave hunger thirst lust od annihilate asphyxiate be in want be killed be pinched be poor be ravenous begrudge bereave of life carry away carry off chloroform choke cut down cut off