Crossword-Solution: STARVE
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Starve | v. i. | To die; to perish. |
| Starve | v. i. | To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. |
| Starve | v. i. | To perish or die with cold. |
| Starve | v. t. | To destroy with cold. |
| Starve | v. t. | To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. |
| Starve | v. t. | To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender. |
| Starve | v. t. | To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air. |
| Starve | v. t. | To deprive of force or vigor; to disable. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| STARVE | anagram | AVERTS, EVARTS, TRAVES, VASTER, VERSTA |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with STARVE (5)
Darling was not sufficiently impressed, and he went on sternly, “I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t go out to dinner to-night, and if I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I starve, and our children will be flung into the streets.” Even then Mrs.
Thither by harpy-footed Furies hail’d, At certain revolutions all the damn’d Are brought: and feel by turns the bitter change Of fierce extreams, extreams by change more fierce, From Beds of raging Fire to starve in Ice Thir soft Ethereal warmth, and there to pine Immovable, infixt, and frozen round, Periods of time, thence hurried back to fire.
Finally, my benevolent master, to use his own words, “set her adrift to take care of herself.” Here was a recently-converted man, holding on upon the mother, and at the same time turning out her helpless child, to starve and die! Master Thomas was one of the many pious slaveholders who hold slaves for the very charitable purpose of taking care of them.
Once they were there, they would no doubt have to pay rent, and not a little of it, for the ventilation of their caverns; and if they refused, they would starve or be suffocated for arrears.
ASCII 0011010, also called SUB or control-Z, was one common line-starve character in the days before microcomputers and the X3.64 terminal standard.
Quotes with STARVE (3)
Do you understand what I'm saying?" shouted Moist. "You can't just go around killing people!""Why Not? You Do." The golem lowered his arm." What?" snapped Moist. "I do not! Who told you that?""I Worked It Out. You Have Killed Two Point Three Three Eight People," said the golem calmly." I have never laid a finger on anyone in my life, Mr Pump. I may be — — all the things you know I am, but I am not a killer! I have never so much as drawn a sword!""No, You Have Not. But You Hav…
To wisely live your life, you don't need to know much Just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.
Your realm is an insane place. In Volaria, no-one goes hungry, slaves are no use when they starve. Those freeborn too lazy or lacking in intelligence to turn sufficient profit to feed themselves are made slaves so they can generate wealth for those deserving of freedom, and be fed in return. Here, your people are chained by their freedom, free to starve and beg from the rich. It's disgusting.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, Rock & Roll, The Atlantic, TIME, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 114 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).