Starve

[starve]

The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve."

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To die; to perish.

Verb
die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

Verb
deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners"

Verb
deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Verb
be hungry; go without food; "Let''s eat--I''m starving!"

Verb
have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

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v. i.
To die; to perish.

v. i.
To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.

v. i.
To perish or die with cold.

v. t.
To destroy with cold.

v. t.
To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder.

v. t.
To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.

v. t.
To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air.

v. t.
To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.

Starve

Starve , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Starved ; p. pr. & vb. n. Starving.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.] 1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing with cold or hunger.] Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus starved this worthy mighty Hercules.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed.
3. To perish or die with cold. Spenser.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold?
Starving with cold as well as hunger.
&hand; In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used of the United States.

Starve

Starve, v. t. 1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their soft ethereal warmth.
2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder. 3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa.
4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air. 5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed starved for matter in an age so fruitful of memorable actions.
The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.

To die; to perish.

To destroy with cold.

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Usage Examples

I was not encouraged to follow the career of a writer because my parents thought that I was going to starve to death. They thought nobody can make a living from being a writer in Brazil. They were not wrong.

Life without idealism is empty indeed. We just hope or starve to death.

To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.

If a lot of people gripped a knife and fork the way they do a golf club, they'd starve to death.

I don't go long without eating. I never starve myself: I grab a healthy snack.

I said to my friends that if I was going to starve, I might as well starve where the food is good.

Anorexia, you starve yourself. Bulimia, you binge and purge. You eat huge amounts of food until you're sick and then you throw up. And anorexia, you just deny yourself. It's about control.

When you're starting out as an actor, there isn't much food around. I was lucky to have a hit pretty early on. I didn't starve too long.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

Democratic nations must try to find ways to starve the terrorist and the hijacker of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

In hindsight it may even seem inevitable that a socialist society will starve when it runs out of capitalists.

I don't cook - I can cook - but I'm not very good. I like being asked over for dinner, because she can't cook either. We would starve if it weren't for modern technology. I know how to work a microwave, but love home cooked meals.

I could I trust starve like a gentleman. It's listed as part of the poetic training, you know.

Look I eat really well and I work out, but I also indulge when I want to. I don't starve myself in an extremist way. You're not taking away my coffee or my dairy or my glass of wine because I'd be devastated.

Actresses can get outrageously precious about the way they look. That's not what life's about. If you starve yourself to the point where your brain cells shrivel, you will never do good work. And if you're overly conscious of your arms flapping in the wind, how can you look the other actor in the eye to respond to them?