starve
Lack all nourishment
To starve is to suffer or die from lack of food.
The word extends to any severe deprivation: starved for attention, starving for affection.
In casual speech, I'm starving is hyperbole for being very hungry.
To starve someone out is to force their surrender by cutting off food supplies.
The besieged city was starved into submission.
Lean from deprivation
- skeletalOf or like bones
- wastedUsed without good result
- thinSmall in diameter
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
wither · atrophy · frail · feeble · weakened · haggard · hollowed · bony
Intensely, painfully hungry
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- pangsSudden sharp sensations
- gnawingPersistent biting action
- appetiteDesire for food
peckish · empty · growling · hungry · underfed · malnourished · undernourished · deprived
Intense, persistent desire
pine · hanker · crave · yen · hunger for · desperate · need · wanting
Disease from dietary inadequacy
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- wantTo desire something
- lackDeficiency or absence
insufficiency · destitution · privation · withhold · neglect · bereft · impoverish · deprive
Prolonged water scarcity
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- humanitarian crisisLarge-scale emergency harming populations
- famine reliefAssistance during mass hunger
- subsistenceMinimal means of living
poverty · disaster · mass mortality · food insecurity · rationing · relief · siege
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
- intermittent fastingScheduled cycles of eating and abstaining
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
- religiousOf faith or worship
sacrifice · self-denial · Lent · Ramadan · Yom Kippur · asceticism · purification · discipline
gaunt
Lean from deprivation
malnourished · wither · atrophy · frail · feeble · weakened · haggard · hollowed · bony · drawn
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
appetite · peckish · empty · growling · hungry · underfed · malnourished · undernourished · deprived · wanting
longing
Intense, persistent desire
yearn · pine · hanker · crave · yen · hunger for · desperate · need · wanting · obsession
malnutrition
Disease from dietary inadequacy
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- wantTo desire something
lack · insufficiency · destitution · privation · withhold · neglect · bereft · impoverish · deprive · needy
drought
Prolonged water scarcity
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- humanitarian crisisLarge-scale emergency harming populations
- famine reliefAssistance during mass hunger
subsistence · poverty · disaster · mass mortality · food insecurity · rationing · relief · siege
abstinence
Voluntary forgoing of indulgences
- fastSpeedy, or skip eating
- intermittent fastingScheduled cycles of eating and abstaining
- ritualCeremonial set of actions
religious · sacrifice · self-denial · Lent · Ramadan · Yom Kippur · asceticism · purification · discipline · voluntary
siege
Encirclement forcing surrender
suffocate · choke off · cut off · deplete · drain · exhaust · wear down · attrition
- siegessiege, siege tower, siege engine, siege engines, siege warfare
- medical descriptorsacute, chronic, mild, moderate, severe
- starving artistPoor creative professional
- starved to deathDied from lack of food
- starvation dietSevere caloric deprivation regimen
- starvation wagesPay too low to live on
- mass starvationWidespread fatal hunger
- starvation modeMetabolic adaptation to scarcity