Antonyms of verb starve

2 of 5 senses of starve

Sense 1
starve, hunger, famish -- (be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!")
       Antonym of be full (Sense 1)
      => be full -- (be sated, have enough to eat; "I'm full--don't give me any more beans, please")

Sense 3
starve, famish -- (deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners")
       Antonym of feed (Sense 2)
      => feed, give -- (give food to; "Feed the starving children in India"; "don't give the child this tough meat")

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb starve

5 senses of starve

Sense 1
starve, hunger, famish -- (be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!")
       => suffer, hurt -- (feel pain or be in pain)

Sense 2
starve, famish -- (die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought")
       => die, decease, perish, go, exit, pass away, expire, pass, kick the bucket, cash in one's chips, buy the farm, conk, give-up the ghost, drop dead, pop off, choke, croak, snuff it -- (pass from physical life and lose all bodily attributes and functions necessary to sustain life; "She died from cancer"; "The children perished in the fire"; "The patient went peacefully"; "The old guy kicked the bucket at the age of 102")

Sense 3
starve, famish -- (deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners")
       => deprive -- (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)

Sense 4
crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust -- (have a craving, appetite, or great desire for)
       => desire, want -- (feel or have a desire for; want strongly; "I want to go home now"; "I want my own room")

Sense 5
starve -- (deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel")
       => deprive -- (keep from having, keeping, or obtaining)