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| Main Entry: | starving |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, starved, thin, underfed, weakened, dehydrated, dog-hungry, flying light, have munchies, hungering, malnourished, peaky, peckish, perishing, pinched, rattleboned, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satiated |
| Main Entry: | starving/starved |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | deprived of food |
| Synonyms: | craving, drawn, dying, emaciated, empty, faint, famished, haggard, hungry, peaked, ravenous, skinny, thin, underfed, weakened, could eat a horse, dehydrated, hungering, malnourished, peckish, perishing, pinched, undernourished |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied, fed |
| Main Entry: | gluttonous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | voracious |
| Synonyms: | covetous, devouring, greedy, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, edacious, gorging, gourmandizing, hoggish, never full, piggish, piggy, ravening, sating, unquenchable, wolfish |
| Main Entry: | ravenous |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry; desirous |
| Synonyms: | avaricious, covetous, devouring, empty, famished, ferocious, gluttonous, grasping, greedy, insatiable, omnivorous, predatory, rapacious, starved, starving, voracious, could eat a horse, edacious, insatiate, ravening, starved to death, wolfish |
| Antonyms: | full, satisfied |
| Main Entry: | voracious |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | very hungry, greedy |
| Synonyms: | avid, covetous, devouring, empty, gluttonous, grasping, gross, insatiable, omnivorous, prodigious, rapacious, ravenous, starved, starving, uncontrolled, dog-hungry, edacious, gorging, piggy, ravening, sating, starved to death, unquenchable |
| Antonyms: | satisfied, quenched |
| Main Entry: | underfed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | undernourished |
| Synonyms: | famished, hungry, skinny, starved, starving, thin, ill-fed, malnourished |
| Antonyms: | healthy, overweight, well-fed, well-nourished |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | hungry |
| Synonyms: | famished, ravenous, starving, unfilled, unfed |
| Antonyms: | filled, full, satisfied, sated |
| Main Entry: | abstain |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | hold back from doing |
| Synonyms: | abjure, abnegate, avoid, cease, constrain, curb, decline, deny oneself, do without, eschew, evade, fast, fence-sit, forbear, forgo, give the go by, give up, go on the wagon, keep from, pass, pass up, quit, refrain, refuse, renounce, shun, sit on one's hands, sit on the fence, sit out, spurn, starve, stop, take the cure, take the pledge, withhold |
| Antonyms: | indulge, use |
| Main Entry: | diet |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | abstain from food |
| Synonyms: | fall off, fast, go without, reduce, slim, count calories, eat sparingly, lose weight, skinny down, slim down, starve, tighten belt, watch weight |
| Antonyms: | gorge, indulge |
| Main Entry: | fast |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | go without food |
| Synonyms: | abstain, diet, forbear, refrain, deny oneself, famish, go hungry, not eat, starve |
| Antonyms: | eat, glut, gorge, stuff |
| Main Entry: | want |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lack, need |
| Synonyms: | call for, demand, miss, require, be deficient, be deprived of, be found wanting, be insufficient, be poor, be short of, be without, fall short in, have need of, stand in need of, starve |
| Notes: | wont is a custom, especially habitual; want is a desire or need |
| Antonyms: | have |
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