Reverse Dictionary: STARVE

ADJECTIVES
► AFFAMISHED afflicted with hunger, famished, starving → 1552 obs.
► AFFAMISHING that afflicts with hunger or starves; starving → 1650 obs.
► BELLY-PINCHED having a belly pinched for want of food; hungry, starved → 1605
► FAMINED starving, starved → 1622 obs.
► FAMMELLED hungry, starved, famished → 1900 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FAMYLOUS famished, hungry, starved → c1475 obs.
► FANTIN’ starving, famishing → 1900 Sc. (Bk.)
► FANTIT weakly, starved → 1898 Sc.
► GUT-FOUNDERED on the point of starvation → 1658
► HAGGARD half-starved; gaunt, lean → 1630 obs.
► HEART-HUNGERED starved, hungry → 1825 Sc. 
► HIGH IN THE LEGS LIKE NANNY PORTER’S HENS said of a thin, starved-looking person → 1865 Eng. dial.
► HUNGER-BANED starved, afflicted with hunger → 1549 obs.
► HUNGER-BIT pinched with hunger; famished, starved → 1549
► HUNGER-BITTEN pinched with hunger; famished, starved → 1549
► HUNGERLY hungry-looking; having a hungry, starved, or famished look → 1393 obs.
► HUNGRY ENOUGH TO EAT A BOILED OWL starving, hungry enough to eat almost anything → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► LONG IN THE LEGS LIKE NANNY PORTER’S HENS said of a thin, starved-looking person → 1865 Eng. dial.
► NATTLED of persons or animals: starved; stunted in growth; pinched with cold → 1854 Eng. dial.
► NIDDERED pinched, as with cold or hunger; starved-looking; checked in growth, stunted, wasted → 1808 Sc. 
► STARVE-GUTTED famished, starving; fit for starvation → 1726
► YAWPIT pinched-looking, starved-looking → 1958 Sc.

NOUNS
► ACCELERATION starvation → L19 tramps’ sl.
► AFFAMISHING afflicting with hunger; famishing, starving → 1649 obs.
► AFFAMISHMENT the act of famishing or starving with hunger; the state of being starved; starvation → 1590
► FAMISHMENT the state of being famished or starved; hungry appetite → c1470
► FANTASHEN starvation → 1898 Sc.
► POVERTY malnutrition, starvation → 1808 Amer. dial.

NOUNS – PERSON
► BANG-BELLY a starving child → 1935 W. Indies
► MCDUMPSTER KID a homeless, starving young person → 2000s African-American sl.
► PINCH-BELLY one who denies himself or others sufficient food; one who starves others; a niggard, a miser → 1648
► QUEER DUKE a lean, half-starved person → L17 UK criminals’ sl.
► SHAMMOCK a starved, miserable-looking person or animal → E18 chiefly Eng. dial.
► SNEAKBILL a starved or thin-faced person → 1562 obs.
► THIN-GUT one who has a thin belly; a lean, starved-looking person, a starveling → 1602 obs.

VERBS
► AFAMISH ► AFFAMISH to afflict with hunger or famine; to starve → 1568 obs.
► FAINT to starve, to famish → 1866 Sc.
► FAME to famish, to starve → c1330 obs.
► FAMEL ► FAMMEL to starve, to famish → 1875 Eng. dial.
► FAMINE to suffer or die of hunger; to starve → 1553 obs.
► FAMISH to die of starvation, to perish from want of food → 1530 obs.
► FANT to famish, to starve → 1898 Sc.
► HARRISH to starve with cold → 1883 Eng. dial.
► HIRPLE to contract the body with cold, crouch, cower down; to starve with cold → 1788 Eng. dial.
► HONISH to ill-treat; to starve a person for want of food → 1878 Eng. dial.
► LEAP AT A CRUST to be starving → M17 sl.
► LICK A THIVEL to suffer poverty, to verge on starvation → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► NIP to starve, to pinch with hunger → 1860 Sc. 
► PEG to starve → L19 Aust. sl.