Starved

Synonyms for "starved" (83 found)

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Closest matches (17)

starving aching for attenuated bare handed bare-handed beggarly cadaverous corpselike craving deprived of desirous of dog-hungry dying for emacerated emaciate emaciated

Adjective(1 words)

carrion

Strong matches (25)

empty empty handed empty-handed famished famishing fasting haggard half-famished half-starved hollow hollow eyed hollow-eyed hungering hungry ill off ill-equipped ill-furnished ill-off ill-provided impoverished

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jejune lacking marantic

Adjective(2 words)

esurient famished

Related words (41)

marasmic on short commons pauperized peaked peaky peckish pinched pinched with hunger poor puny ravening ravenous sharp set sharp-set shorthanded shriveled skeletal starveling tabetic tabid

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underfed undermanned undernourished unfed unfilled unprovided unreplenished unsupplied voracious wasted weakened weazeny withered wizened wolfish wraithlike

Adjective(3 words)

ravenous sharp-set starving

Adjective(2 words)

scrawny weedy

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4 relation types

Synonyms

2 entries

sharp set starving

form of

1 entries

starve

related to

4 entries

emaciated hungry malnourished starvation

similar

2 entries

hungry malnourished

Translations

7 translations across 6 languages.

Dutch

1 entries

uitgehongerd adj (extremely hungry)

Esperanto

1 entries

malsateginta adj (approaching starvation)

Māori

1 entries

makuhea adj (approaching starvation)

Spanish

2 entries

hambreado adj (approaching starvation)
hambreado adj (extremely hungry)

Swedish

1 entries

utsvulten adj (extremely hungry)

Tok Pisin

1 entries

hanggre adj (extremely hungry)

Sample sentences

13 total sentences available.

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Because of the famine, the cattle starved to death.

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The cattle starved to death.

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The old man was starved to death.

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Hundreds of people have starved to death in that district.

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