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🥀 A hungry person 🦹 A person who starves others
starver

starver

8.5
A person or thing that causes others to have no food
  • noun
  • /ˈstɑrvər/
translation icon : causante de hambre
  • The corrupt politician became known as a starver after the country faced widespread famine due to his mismanagement.

Examples

  • In times of crisis, some leaders have acted as starvers, neglecting the needs of the starving population.

  • Many community activists criticized the government for its policies that turned into starvers for the poor and needy.

  • Apart from the fact that while this gentleman is at the bedside of a great dictator, communist champion, blackmail starver of his people, the French who pay his salary through their taxes have perhaps needed his talents to live.

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Antonyms

provider
65 2.9

A person who gives money, food, or a home to their family

Surface Forms

starver singular
starvers plural

Morphology

starver = starve (transparent) = starve + er

Regular agentive formation from 'starve' with '-er'; the meaning 'one who causes starvation' follows productive English morphology.

Etymology

Starver can also mean a person or thing that makes others go without food; it uses the same parts starve ('to die' from lack of food) and -er meaning 'one who causes'. So, a starver can be someone or something that causes people to starve.