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starve
verb as in abstain
verb as in diet
verb as in fast
verb as in want
Strong match
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Is it worse to let your family starve or profit off the carnage?
Still, the man did starve himself in the name of a same-sex marriage ban and it, unsurprisingly, earned him a lot of backlash.
This can explain why people who starve themselves can only lose minimal amounts of weight.
He had wanted me to go into insurance, sure I would starve as an artist.
In our surreal rebirth, it makes sense that as newsrooms starve elsewhere, New Orleans has a newspaper war.
If we set him adrift the poor child would starve—unless the cat got him.
Not so much, either; 'cause a chicken will stir round an' scratch a livin' out the ground, sooner 'n starve.
I have seen examples of such being freed, that is, turned out of doors to starve.
Here, as in the former instance, the last syllables rhyme correctly, and the objection is confined to starve and deserve.
They would starve on the skin of the Scotch men and are too well-mannered to attack that of the Scotch ladies.
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On this page you'll find 95 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to starve, such as: cease, forgo, pass up, quit, refrain, and renounce.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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