starves
Lacks all nourishment
Starves is the third-person singular of starve.
To starve is to suffer or die from lack of food: The prisoner starved in his cell.
Extended uses cover any severe deprivation: The project starved for funding.
To starve someone is to deprive them of food or resources: They starved the city into submission.
In casual speech, I'm starving means very hungry.
Intensely, painfully hungry
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
- undernourishedInsufficiently nourished
gaunt · wasting · skeletal · weakened · fasting · hungry · deprived · desperate
Prolonged water scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- food crisisSevere shortage of sustenance
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
- povertySevere lack of resources
disaster · emergency · shortage · rationing · destitution · hardship · food insecurity · blight
famished
Intensely, painfully hungry
- ravenousExtremely hungry, insatiable
- malnourishedLacking proper nutrition
- emaciatedAbnormally wasted from hunger
undernourished · gaunt · wasting · skeletal · weakened · fasting · hungry · deprived · desperate · suffering
drought
Prolonged water scarcity
- scarcityInsufficiency of something needed
- food crisisSevere shortage of sustenance
- crop failureWhen fields yield nothing
poverty · disaster · emergency · shortage · rationing · destitution · hardship · food insecurity · blight · refugees
yearns
Desires with intensity
hungers · pines · desires · needs · craves · lacking · wanting · needing · seeking · grasping
deprives
Takes something away
restricts · limits · cuts off · rations · impoverishes · strips · bereaves · robs · dispossesses · stunts
- 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