Word Meanings - STARVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 with cold. Spenser. Have I seen the naked starve for cold Sandys. Starving with cold as well as hunger. W. Irving. Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States.

Related words: (words related to STARVE)

• WHILES
  1. Meanwhile; meantime. The good knight whiles humming to himself the lay of some majored troubadour. Sir. W. Scott. 2. sometimes; at times. Sir W. Scott. The whiles. See under While, n.
• RAKISH
  Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.
• WHILERE
  A little while ago; recently; just now; erewhile. Helpeth me now as I did you whilere. Chaucer. He who, with all heaven's heraldry, whilere Entered the world. Milton.
• PERISHMENT
  The act of perishing. Udall.
• SOMETIMES
  1. Formerly; sometime. That fair and warlike form In which the majesty of buried Denmark Did sometimes march. Shak. 2. At times; at intervals; now and then;occasionally. It is good that we sometimes be contradicted. Jer. Taylor. Sometimes . . .
• RAKERY
  Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.
• RAKER
  See GILL (more info) 1. One who, or that which, rakes; as: A person who uses a rake. A machine for raking grain or hay by horse or other power. A gun so placed as to rake an enemy's ship.
• PERISHABILITY
  Perishableness.
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• RAKE
  1. To use a rake, as for searching or for collecting; to scrape; to search minutely. One is for raking in Chaucer for antiquated words. Dryden. 2. To pass with violence or rapidity; to scrape along. Pas could not stay, but over him did rake. Sir
• HUNGERER
  One who hungers; one who longs. Lamb.
• HERCULES
  A hero, fabled to have been the son of Jupiter and Alcmena, and celebrated for great strength, esp. for the accomplishment of his twelve great tasks or "labors."
• RAKESTALE
  The handle of a rake. That tale is not worth a rakestele. Chaucer.
• MIGHTY
  1. Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4. 2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20. 3. Denoting and extraordinary degree or quality
• SUFFERABLE
  1. Able to suffer or endure; patient. "Ye must be sufferable." Chaucer. 2. That may be suffered, tolerated, or permitted; allowable; tolerable. -- Suf"fer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Suf"fer*a*bly, adv.
• RAKE-VEIN
  See VEIN
• 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.
• INDIGENT
  stand in need of, fr. OL. indu + L. egere to be needy, 1. Wanting; void; free; destitute; -- used with of. Bacon. 2. Destitute of property or means of comfortable subsistence; needy; poor; in want; necessitous. Indigent faint souls
• 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
• RAKEL
  Hasty; reckless; rash. Chaucer. -- Ra"kel*ness, n. Chaucer.
• LONG-SUFFERANCE
  Forbearance to punish or resent.
• WHILE
  wigl, G. weile, OHG. wila, hwila, hwil, Icel. hvila a bed, hvild rest, Sw. hvila, Dan. hvile, Goth. hweila a time, and probably to L. 1. Space of time, or continued duration, esp. when short; a time; as, one while we thought him innocent. "All
• WATER CRAKE
  The dipper. The spotted crake . See Illust. of Crake. The swamp hen, or crake, of Australia.
• SKELDRAKE; SKIELDRAKE
  The common European sheldrake. The oyster catcher.
• HORSERAKE
  A rake drawn by a horse.
• KEELRAKE
  See KEELHAUL
• PARAKITE
  A train or series of kites on one string and flying tandem, used for attaining great heights and for sending up instruments for meteorological observations or a man for military reconnoissance; also, a kite of such a train.
• DRAKE
  The drake fly. The drake will mount steeple height into the air. Walton. Drake fly, a kind of fly, sometimes used in angling. The dark drake fly, good in August. Walton. (more info) enterich, Icel. andriki, Dan. andrik, OSw. andrak, andrage, masc.,
• TETRAKISHEXAHEDRON
  A tetrahexahedron.
• ERSTWHILE
  Till then or now; heretofore; formerly.
• FIREDRAKE
  1. A fiery dragon. Beau. & Fl. 2. A fiery meteor; an ignis fatuus; a rocket. 3. A worker at a furnace or fire. B. Jonson.
• OVERRAKE
  To rake over, or sweep across, from end to end, as waves that break over a vessel anchored with head to the sea.
• BRAKE
  of Break. Tennyson.