starve
verbbe hungry; go without food
“Let's eat--I'm starving!”
- Similar:
- hunger, famish
- be full
WordGiraffe
An English dictionary, being rebuilt properly
WordGiraffe is becoming a reference for what words mean and how they are actually used — definitions, example sentences, synonyms and antonyms, for 143,366 English words.
What is here so far
The dictionary data is assembled and checked. What is not yet built is the site around it, and rather than publish 143,366 thin pages to fill space, nothing is going live until the entries are worth landing on. A few real ones are below, so you can see the shape of it rather than take the description on trust.
undefined
adjectivenot precisely limited, determined, or distinguished
“an undefined term”
- Similar:
- vague
- defined
discontinue
verbput an end to a state or an activity
“Quit teasing your little brother”
- Similar:
- stop, cease, give up, quit, lay off
- continue
actual
adjectivepresently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible
“the predicted temperature and the actual temperature were markedly different”
- Similar:
- existent
- potential
99,859 of those words carry synonyms and 50,432 carry example sentences.
What it will not be
This domain previously hosted a word-unscrambler and Scrabble-cheat site — the kind that generates a page for every letter combination and says almost nothing on any of them. It is not coming back in that form. A dictionary is only worth reading if each entry justifies its own page, which means fewer pages, written and checked, rather than more.