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starve
[stahrv]
verb (used without object)
to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment.
to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger.
to suffer from extreme poverty and need.
to feel a strong need or desire.
The child was starving for affection.
Chiefly British Dialect.to perish or suffer extremely from cold.
Obsolete.to die.
verb (used with object)
to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food.
to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger.
to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender.
to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
Chiefly British Dialect.to cause to perish, or to suffer extremely, from cold.
starve
/ ɑː /
verb
to die or cause to die from lack of food
to deprive (a person or animal) or (of a person, etc) to be deprived of food
informal(intr) to be very hungry
to deprive or be deprived (of something necessary), esp so as to cause suffering or malfunctioning
the engine was starved of fuel
to bring (to) a specified condition by starving
to starve someone into submission
archaicto be or cause to be extremely cold
Other Word Forms
- half-starved adjective
- half-starving adjective
- self-starved adjective
- unstarved adjective
- ˈٲ noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of starve1
Word History and Origins
Origin of starve1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
"Inviting starving people to their death is a war crime. Those responsible of this system must be held accountable," Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X.
We don't want you to starve to death.
If the furnaces were starved of fuel and went out, the UK would no longer have the ability to produce so-called virgin steel, due to the process of restarting them being extremely difficult and costly.
Both sides continue to restrict aid agencies' access to the starving.
"If we have a protracted situation where this is what we can manage, then basically we have a slowly starving population," says Felix Okech, the WFP's head of refugee operations in Kenya.
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