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Spell Bee Word: Starve


What does starve mean?

Word: Starve

Part of Speech: Verb

Meaning: Starve means to suffer or become ill because there is not enough food to eat. People also say they are starving when they are just very hungry.

Synonyms: go hungry

How do you spell starve?

Syllables: starve

Tricky part: Starve ends in a silent e after the v. Starv is the slip, because the e makes no sound.

Watch out for: starv, starrve, starf

Memory tip: Give, love and starve all end in ve: English words almost never end in a bare v, so the e stays on guard.

Starve in a sentence

Example 1: The coach told us not to starve ourselves before the big race.

Example 2: I skipped breakfast and I am starving now.

Example 3: Farmers worry that a drought could make their cattle starve.

Fun Fact

Starve is a very old word: its Old English form was steorfan, and the German verb sterben is a close relative.

Practise the CREST Way

Word Connection

Choose the antonym of the word:

starve

a) weaken
b) hunger
c) fast
d) feast

Show answer

d) feast. To feast is to eat a lot, the opposite of going without food.

Spell-o-Spell

Choose the correctly spelt word:

a) nutrision
b) hungery
c) starve
d) dinnor

Show answer

c) starve. Hungry has no e after the g, nutrition is spelt with -tion and dinner ends in -er; starve is correct.

Word Cookie

Find the extra letter in the word:

stearve

a) a
b) v
c) e
d) r

Show answer

c) e. The vowel sound in starve is spelt ar alone, as in car.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After a flood, which of these helps stop people from starving?

a) giving out food packets
b) giving out torches
c) giving out raincoats
d) giving out blankets

Show answer

a) giving out food packets

2. A plant kept in a dark cupboard is starved of ____.

a) air
b) water
c) soil
d) light

Show answer

d) light

Associated Words

Words that end in -rve: carve, preserve, observe, nerve, conserve

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