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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
- foll byof or for to deprive or be deprived (of something necessary), esp so as to cause suffering or malfunctioning
the engine was starved of fuel
- trfoll byinto to bring (to) a specified condition by starving
to starve someone into submission
- archaic.to be or cause to be extremely cold
Derived Forms
- ˈٲ, noun
Other Word Forms
- -ٲ adjective
- -ٲiԲ adjective
- -ٲ adjective
- ܲ·ٲ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of starve1
Word History and Origins
Origin of starve1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Even my cat is starving, and I don’t know how to help her.
A lot of them starved to death, having to walk hundreds of miles in bare feet in the middle of winter.
Palestinian ambassador to the UN, Mansour, warned the judges that "people are starving" while "food rots at the border".
“I appeal to the warring parties: Call a ceasefire, release the hostages and come to the aid of a starving people that aspires to a future of peace!”
One year later, our trauma not subsiding, we decided to keep the phantom bugs starving in the BB bag and buy another Rimowa.
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