I might as well drown as starve.
Source: tatoeba (20077)
Starve
//stɑːv//
Synonyms for "starve" (83 found)
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Closest matches (17)
Strong matches (25)
Related words (41)
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24 entriesShowing 16 of 24 words.
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1 entriesderived
28 entriesShowing 16 of 28 words.
has context
1 entriesis a
1 entriesmanner of
3 entriesrelated to
8 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
110 translations across 40 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- مَاتَ جَوْعًا verb (to die because of lack of food)
Asturian
1 entries- esfamiar verb (to die because of lack of food)
Belarusian
1 entries- галада́ць verb (to die because of lack of food)
Bulgarian
2 entries- гладувам verb (to die because of lack of food)
- умирам от глад verb (to be very hungry)
Catalan
1 entries- morir de gana verb (to die because of lack of food)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 餓死 /饿死 verb (to die because of lack of food)
- 饿死 verb (to be very hungry)
Czech
1 entries- hladovět verb (to die because of lack of food)
Dutch
4 entries- rammelen verb (to be very hungry)
- sterven van de honger verb (to die because of lack of food)
- sterven van de honger verb (to be very hungry)
- uithongeren verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Esperanto
1 entries- malsati verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Faroese
2 entries- svølta verb (to die because of lack of food)
- svølta verb (to destroy by deprivation)
Finnish
4 entries- kuolla nälkään verb (to die because of lack of food)
- kuolla nälkään verb (to be very hungry)
- nälkiinnyttää verb (to destroy by deprivation)
- näännyttää verb (to destroy by deprivation)
French
4 entries- affamer verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- avoir l'estomac dans les talons verb (to be very hungry)
- crever de faim verb (to be very hungry)
- crever la dalle verb (to be very hungry)
Galician
4 entries- alangrear verb (to die because of lack of food)
- alangrear verb (to be very hungry)
- esfamear verb (to die because of lack of food)
- esfamear verb (to be very hungry)
German
4 entries- Hungers sterben verb (to die because of lack of food)
- aushungern verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- verhungern verb (to die because of lack of food)
- verhungern verb (to be very hungry)
Greek
2 entries- πεθαίνω της πείνας verb (to be very hungry)
- ψοφάω της πείνας verb (to be very hungry)
Hebrew
1 entries- גָּוַע verb (to die because of lack of food)
Hungarian
3 entries- éhenhal verb (to die because of lack of food)
- éhezik verb (to be very hungry)
- éheztet verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Indonesian
2 entries- kelaparan verb (to be very hungry)
- mati kelaparan verb (to die because of lack of food)
Italian
2 entries- affamare verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- morire di fame verb (to die because of lack of food)
Japanese
4 entries- 飢えさせる verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- 飢える verb (to die because of lack of food)
- 飢える verb (to be very hungry)
- 餓死する verb (to die because of lack of food)
Khün
1 entries- ᩋᩧ᩠ᨷ verb (to die because of lack of food)
Korean
1 entries- 굶어죽다 verb (to die because of lack of food)
Māori
2 entries- whakapuango verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- whakatiki verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Old Church Slavonic
1 entries- алкати verb (to be very hungry)
Polish
2 entries- głodować verb (to die because of lack of food)
- głodzić verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Portuguese
4 entries- esfomear verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- estar faminto verb (to be very hungry)
- estar louco de fome verb (to be very hungry)
- estar morrendo de fome verb (to be very hungry)
Quechua
2 entries- mallay verb (to be very hungry)
- yarqay verb (to be very hungry)
Romanian
4 entries- flămânzi verb (to die because of lack of food)
- muri de foame verb (to die because of lack of food)
- muri de foame verb (to be very hungry)
- suferi de foame verb (to die because of lack of food)
Russian
4 entries- голода́ть verb (to die because of lack of food)
- голода́ть verb (to be very hungry)
- изголода́ться verb (to be very hungry)
- мори́ть го́лодом verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Slovak
1 entries- hladovať verb (to die because of lack of food)
Slovene
1 entries- stradati verb (to die because of lack of food)
Spanish
4 entries- hambrear verb (to be very hungry)
- hambrear verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- morir de hambre verb (to die because of lack of food)
- morir de hambre verb (to be very hungry)
Swedish
4 entries- svälta verb (to die because of lack of food)
- svälta verb (to be very hungry)
- svälta (ut) verb (to destroy by deprivation)
- svälta (ut) verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Tagalog
2 entries- gutumin verb (to die because of lack of food)
- magutom verb (to be very hungry)
Telugu
3 entries- ఆకలిచావు verb (to die because of lack of food)
- ఘోరకలి verb (to be very hungry)
- చప్పిడికూడు verb (to deprive of nourishment)
Turkish
3 entries- aç bırakmak verb (to deprive of nourishment)
- açlıktan ölmek verb (to die because of lack of food)
- açlıktan ölmek verb (to be very hungry)
Ukrainian
1 entries- голодува́ти verb (to die because of lack of food)
Vietnamese
3 entries- chết đói verb (to die because of lack of food)
- đói meo verb (to be very hungry)
- đói ngấu verb (to be very hungry)
Welsh
1 entries- llwgu verb (to be very hungry)
Yakut
1 entries- аас verb (to be very hungry)
Sample sentences
26 total sentences available.
We cannot stand quiet and watch people starve.
Source: tatoeba (22878)
I might as well starve as do such a thing.
Source: tatoeba (41624)
Feed a cold and starve a fever.
Source: tatoeba (63733)
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