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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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Is starve a Words With Friends word?

Yes. The word starve is a Words With Friends word. The word starve is worth 10 points in Words With Friends (WWF):

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You can make 123 words from 'starve' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.


6 letters words from 'starve'

AVERTS 9STARVE 9
TAVERS 9TRAVES 9
VASTER 9 

5 letters words from 'starve'

ARETS 5ASTER 5
AVERS 8AVERT 8
EARST 5RATES 5
RAVES 8REAST 5
RESAT 5SAVER 8
STARE 5STAVE 8
STEAR 5STRAE 5
TARES 5TASER 5
TAVER 8TEARS 5
TERAS 5TRAVE 8
VARES 8VERST 8
VERTS 8VESTA 8

4 letters words from 'starve'

ARES 4ARET 4
ARSE 4ARTS 4
ATES 4AVER 7
AVES 7EARS 4
EAST 4EATS 4
ERAS 4ERST 4
ETAS 4RASE 4
RAST 4RATE 4
RATS 4RAVE 7
REST 4RETS 4
REVS 7SATE 4
SAVE 7SEAR 4
SEAT 4SERA 4
SETA 4STAR 4
TAES 4TARE 4
TARS 4TAVS 7
TEAR 4TEAS 4
TRES 4TSAR 4
VAES 7VARE 7
VARS 7VASE 7
VAST 7VATS 7
VERA 7VERS 7
VERT 7VEST 7
VETS 7 

3 letters words from 'starve'

ARE 3ARS 3
ART 3ATE 3
AVE 6EAR 3
EAS 3EAT 3
ERA 3ERS 3
EST 3ETA 3
RAS 3RAT 3
RES 3RET 3
REV 6SAE 3
SAR 3SAT 3
SAV 6SEA 3
SER 3SET 3
TAE 3TAR 3
TAS 3TAV 6
TEA 3TES 3
VAE 6VAR 6
VAS 6VAT 6
VET 6 

2 letters words from 'starve'

AE 2AR 2
AS 2AT 2
EA 2ER 2
ES 2ET 2
RE 2ST 2
TA 2TE 2

Definitions and meaning of starve

starve

Etymology

From Middle English sterven, from Old English steorfan (“to die”), 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 Proto-Indo-European *ster- (“stiff”); or a conflation of the aforementioned. Cognate with Scots sterve (“to die, perish”), 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 or (obsolete) starf or (obsolete) storve, past participle starved or (obsolete) storven)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
    • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i.4:
      noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to starve, / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
  2. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. (intransitive) To be very hungry.
    Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
  4. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
  5. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
    The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
    The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
  6. (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
  7. (transitive, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

Derived terms

  • starvation
  • starveling
  • starving

Translations

Anagrams

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

Source: wiktionary.org