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STARVES

7 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 5 pts
Big 5 pts
Super Big 5 pts

STARVES is a valid 7-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 5 in Classic, 5 in Big, and 5 in Super Big Boggle.

STARVES root STARVE-s

Word family

STARVE 3 STARVING 11 STARVED-d 5 STERVE 3

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STARVINGS 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  2. intransitiveTo suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. intransitiveTo be very hungry.
    • I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.
  4. transitiveTo kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
  5. transitiveTo make suffer severely by depriving of food.
  6. transitiveTo force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
    • If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
  7. datedtransitiveTo force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
    • Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.
  8. transitiveTo deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
    • The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
    • The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen.
  9. intransitiveTo deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
  10. UKtransitiveTo kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
    • I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
  11. intransitiveobsoleteTo die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.