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Starve

To die; to perish.

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Verb group 2

Famish 84% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Famish 84% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Broader term 15

Ache 76% connected

A name given to several species of plants; as, smallage, wild celery, parsley.

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Choke 76% connected

To render unable to breathe by filling, pressing upon, or squeezing the windpipe; to stifle; to suffocate; to strangle.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Croak 76% connected

To make a low, hoarse noise in the throat, as a frog, a raven, or a crow; hence, to make any hoarse, dismal sound.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Decease 76% connected

Departure, especially departure from this life; death.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Deprive 76% connected

To take away; to put an end; to destroy.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Die 76% connected

of Dice

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Exit 76% connected

He (or she ) goes out, or retires from view; as, exit Macbeth.

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Expire 76% connected

To breathe out; to emit from the lungs; to throw out from the mouth or nostrils in the process of respiration; -- opposed to inspire.

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Go 76% connected

Gone.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hurt 76% connected

A band on a trip-hammer helve, bearing the trunnions.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Pass 76% connected

To go; to move; to proceed; to be moved or transferred from one point to another; to make a transit; -- usually with a following adverb or adverbal p…

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Perish 76% connected

To be destroyed; to pass away; to become nothing; to be lost; to die; hence, to wither; to waste away.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Suffer 76% connected

To feel, or endure, with pain, annoyance, etc.; to submit to with distress or grief; to undergo; as, to suffer pain of body, or grief of mind.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Want 76% connected

The state of not having; the condition of being without anything; absence or scarcity of what is needed or desired; deficiency; lack; as, a want of p…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Causes 2

Famish 72% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hunger 72% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

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Synonym 5

Crave 92% connected

To ask with earnestness or importunity; to ask with submission or humility; to beg; to entreat; to beseech; to implore.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Famish 92% connected

To starve, kill, or destroy with hunger.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Hunger 92% connected

An uneasy sensation occasioned normally by the want of food; a craving or desire for food.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Lust 92% connected

Pleasure.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Thirst 92% connected

A sensation of dryness in the throat associated with a craving for liquids, produced by deprivation of drink, or by some other cause (as fear, excite…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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