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Is starve a Scrabble word?

Yes. The word starve is a Scrabble US word. The word starve is worth 9 points in Scrabble:

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Is starve a Scrabble UK word?

Yes. The word starve is a Scrabble UK word and has 9 points:

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6-letter words (5 found)

AVERTS,STARVE,TAVERS,TRAVES,VASTER,

5-letter words (24 found)

ARETS,ASTER,AVERS,AVERT,EARST,RATES,RAVES,REAST,RESAT,SAVER,STARE,STAVE,STEAR,STRAE,TARES,TASER,TAVER,TEARS,TERAS,TRAVE,VARES,VERST,VERTS,VESTA,

4-letter words (49 found)

ARES,ARET,ARSE,ARTS,ATES,AVER,AVES,EARS,EAST,EATS,ERAS,ERST,ETAS,RASE,RAST,RATE,RATS,RAVE,RAVS,REST,RETS,REVS,SATE,SAVE,SEAR,SEAT,SERA,SETA,STAR,TAES,TARE,TARS,TASE,TAVS,TEAR,TEAS,TRES,TSAR,VAES,VARE,VARS,VASE,VAST,VATS,VERA,VERS,VERT,VEST,VETS,

3-letter words (38 found)

ARE,ARS,ART,ATE,ATS,AVE,EAR,EAS,EAT,ERA,ERS,EST,ETA,RAS,RAT,RAV,RES,RET,REV,SAE,SAR,SAT,SAV,SEA,SER,SET,SEV,TAE,TAR,TAS,TAV,TEA,TES,VAE,VAR,VAS,VAT,VET,

2-letter words (12 found)

AE,AR,AS,AT,EA,ER,ES,ET,RE,ST,TA,TE,

1-letter words (1 found)

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You can make 129 words from starve according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

Definitions and meaning of starve

starve

English

Etymology

From Middle English sterven (“to die, perish”), from Old English steorfan (“to die, perish”), from Proto-West Germanic *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (“to become stiff, die”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (“to lose strength, become numb, be motionless”); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (“to become stiff”), from *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots stairve, sterve (“to die, perish, starve”), Saterland Frisian stjerwa (“to die”), West Frisian stjerre (“to die”), Dutch sterven (“to die”), German Low German starven (“to die”), German sterben (“to die”), Icelandic stirfinn (“peevish, froward”), Albanian shterp (“sterile, unproductive, barren land”).

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɑːv/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /stɑɹv/
  • Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)v

Verb

starve (third-person singular simple present starves, present participle starving, simple past starved, past participle starved or (obsolete) starven)

  1. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  2. (intransitive) To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
  4. (transitive) To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
  5. (transitive) To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
    Synonym: famish
  6. (transitive) To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
  7. (transitive, dated) To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
  8. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
  9. (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
  10. (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
  11. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

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Further reading

  • “starve”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
  • John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “starve, v.”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.

Anagrams

  • averts, ravest, tarves, traves, vaster, versta

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