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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
/ ²õ³Ùɑ˱¹ /
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
- ˈ²õ³Ù²¹°ù±¹±ð°ù, noun
Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³ó²¹±ô´Ú-²õ³Ù²¹°ù±¹±ð»å adjective
- ³ó²¹±ô´Ú-²õ³Ù²¹°ù±¹î€ƒi²Ô²µ adjective
- ²õ±ð±ô´Ú-²õ³Ù²¹°ù±¹±ð»å adjective
- ³Ü²Ô·²õ³Ù²¹°ù±¹±ð»å adjective
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of starve1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of starve1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
Militiamen have been accused of running detention centres where migrants are beaten to death or starved, and the Libyan coastguard is accused of sometimes filming people in the sea rather than rescuing them.
This may be why the Trump administration is set on starving our nation’s libraries to death, or close enough to it.
This has meant still more forced displacements of starving families, more bombed refugee camps and more hospitals overflowing with critically injured people and almost no supplies.
With just one swing, he’d altered the outcome of a season, the fortunes of a franchise and the emotions of a fan base starved for more than three decades for a full-season championship.
The government’s shift away from production largely stems from mainstreamed austerity politics – a “starve the beast†approach to government – and backlash against the New Deal’s expansion of federal economic involvement.
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