Starve

  • 91starvation — noun 1. a state of extreme hunger resulting from lack of essential nutrients over a prolonged period (Freq. 2) • Syn: ↑famishment • Derivationally related forms: ↑starve • Hypernyms: ↑hunger, ↑hungriness …

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  • 92sterve — /stûrv/ transitive verb and intransitive verb an old form (Spenser) of ↑starve (to starve, to die) * * * stertylle, sterve obs. ff. startle, starve …

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  • 93fall from grace — {v. phr.} To go back to a bad way of behaving; do something bad again. * /The boys behaved well during dinner until they fell from grace by eating their dessert with their fingers instead of their forks./ * /The boy fell from grace when he lied./ …

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  • 94fall from grace — {v. phr.} To go back to a bad way of behaving; do something bad again. * /The boys behaved well during dinner until they fell from grace by eating their dessert with their fingers instead of their forks./ * /The boy fell from grace when he lied./ …

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  • 95Starveling — Starve ling (st[aum]rv l[i^]ng), n. [Starve + ling.] One who, or that which, pines from lack of food, or nutriment. [1913 Webster] Old Sir John hangs with me, and thou knowest he is no starveling. Shak. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 96famish — verb Etymology: Middle English, probably alteration of famen, from Anglo French afamer, from Vulgar Latin *affamare, from Latin ad + fames Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. to cause to suffer severely from hunger 2. archaic to cause to starve …

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  • 98Cognate — For other uses, see Cognate (disambiguation). In linguistics, cognates are words that have a common etymological origin. This learned term derives from the Latin cognatus (blood relative).[1] Cognates within the same language are called doublets …

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  • 100Vilfredo Pareto — Lausanne School Born 15 July 1848(1848 07 15) Died 19 August 1923(1923 08 …

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