Word Meanings - HUNGER-STARVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.

Related words: (words related to HUNGER-STARVE)

• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• STARVELING
  One who, or that which, pines from lack or food, or nutriment. Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak.
• STARVEDLY
  In the condition of one starved or starving; parsimoniously. Some boasting housekeeper which keepth open doors for one day, . . . and lives starvedly all the year after. Bp. Hall.
• HUNGER
  & OHG. hungar, G. hunger, Icel. hungr, Sw. & Dan. hunger, Goth. h 1. An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food. Note: The sensation of hunger is usually referred to the stomach, but is probably
• FAMISH
  1. To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger. Shak. 2. To exhaust the strength or endurance of, by hunger; to distress with hanger. And when all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread. Cen. xli. 55. The pains
• STARVE
  In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules. Chaucer. 2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent. Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. Pope. 3. To perish or die
• HUNGER-BIT; HUNGER-BITTEN
  Pinched or weakened by hunger. Milton.
• HUNGERED
  Hungry; pinched for food. Milton.
• HUNGERLY
  Wanting food; starved. Shak.
• HUNGER-STARVE
  To starve with hunger; to famish. Shak.
• FAMISHMENT
  State of being famished.
• AFFAMISHMENT
  Starvation. Bp. Hall.
• AFFAMISH
  To afflict with, or perish from, hunger. Spenser.
• ANHUNGERED
  Ahungered; longing.
• WIT-STARVED
  Barren of wit; destitute of genius. Examiner.
• ENHUNGER
  To make hungry. Those animal passions which vice had . . . enhungered to feed on innocence and life. J. Martineau.
• AHUNGERED
  Pinched with hunger; very hungry. C. Bronté.
• ENFAMISH
  To famish; to starve.