- dehydrated
- dying
- emaciated
- hungry
- malnourished
- undernourished
- craving
- drawn
- empty
- faint
- famished
- haggard
- hungering
- peaked
- perishing
- pinched
- skinny
- starved
- thin
- weakened
- dog-hungry
- flying light
- have munchies
- peaky
- peckish
- rattleboned
- ravenous
- underfed
On this page you’ll find 43 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to starving, such as: dehydrated, dying, emaciated, hungry, malnourished, and undernourished.
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How to use starving in a sentence
It was the starving sense of loneliness, the aching sense of loss, the yearning and the vain desire that made it seem so long.
THE WAVEALGERNON BLACKWOOD
In every colony the «starving time,» even if it had ever existed, was now no more than an ancient tradition.
THE EVE OF THE REVOLUTIONCARL BECKER
Marry, let an honest man lack their assistance, and starving stares him in the face, for want of a recommendation.
THE BATTLE OF HEXHAM;GEORGE COLMAN
This will be the more necessary as the process of starving out the Turks to the south must take time.
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTON
A vast assemblage of countless thousands of women, and boys, and wan and starving men, gathered in the streets of Paris.
MADAME ROLAND, MAKERS OF HISTORYJOHN S. C. ABBOTT
Though he was not starving, or anywhere near it, he craved warm food and hot coffee.
CABIN FEVERB. M. BOWER
The most frequent story was of no news from the country held by the Germans, of families left with nothing and probably starving.
THE AMAZING INTERLUDEMARY ROBERTS RINEHART
SYNONYM OF THE DAY
OCTOBER 26, 1985
WORDS RELATED TO STARVING
- famished
- ravenous
- starving
- unfed
- unfilled
- covetous
- devouring
- edacious
- gorging
- gourmandizing
- greedy
- gross
- hoggish
- insatiable
- never full
- omnivorous
- piggish
- piggy
- prodigious
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- sating
- starved
- starving
- unquenchable
- wolfish
- avaricious
- could eat a horse
- covetous
- devouring
- edacious
- empty
- famished
- ferocious
- gluttonous
- grasping
- greedy
- insatiable
- insatiate
- omnivorous
- predatory
- rapacious
- ravening
- starved
- starved to death
- starving
- voracious
- wolfish
- avid
- covetous
- devouring
- dog-hungry
- edacious
- empty
- gluttonous
- gorging
- grasping
- greedy
- gross
- insatiable
- omnivorous
- piggy
- prodigious
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- sating
- starved
- starved to death
- starving
- uncontrolled
- unquenchable
- famished
- hungry
- ill-fed
- malnourished
- skinny
- starved
- starving
- thin
- avid
- covetous
- devouring
- dog-hungry
- edacious
- empty
- gluttonous
- gorging
- grasping
- gross
- insatiable
- omnivorous
- piggy
- prodigious
- rapacious
- ravening
- ravenous
- sating
- starved
- starved to death
- starving
- uncontrolled
- unquenchable
Roget’s 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Artur Samarin:
Ukrainian people were starving, my mother, my grandfather, and my grandma … they put their last money for me to come here and they told me we wish you well do your best, man. Do it for all of us.
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Antonio Ledezma:
It is incredible how this regime is starving its own people to death, we have all seen the pictures. We have all seen the videos and the proof of what is happening. Why is the international community not calling this a genocide? Because that is what it is.
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African Development Bank.How:
We do not prepare for [ drought ], it’s like we just wake up and discover that people in rural Kenya are starving, that people on one side of the country have no rain.
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John Paris:
In the older world, you couldn’t eat meat on Friday, but if you were starving and meat was the only food available, of course you would eat meat.
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Herman Pontzer:
We think this is a really common evolutionary adaptation that all animals use to keep from outstripping their resources and to keep from starving. Your body is listening to your environment and setting an energy expenditure level it can maintain.
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esurient, faint from lack of food, famished, hungering, hungry, ravenous, ready to eat a horse (informal) sharp-set, starved
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starving
If you say that you are starving, you mean that you are very hungry.
INFORMAL adj v-link ADJ
Apart from anything else I was starving.
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starving
adj.
very hungry
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