starve
Pronunciation Verb
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Pronunciation Verb
starve (starves, present participle starving; past starved, past participle starved)
- (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i.4:
- noble Britomart / Released her, that else was like to starve, / Through cruell knife that her deare heart did kerue.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, IV.i.4:
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- Hey, ma, I'm starving! What's for dinner?
- (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food.
- (transitive) To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
- The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
- The patient's brain was starved of oxygen.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold.
- I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
- Russian: ча́хнуть
- French: mourir de faim
- German: verhungern, Hungers sterben
- Italian: morire di fame
- Portuguese: morrer de fome
- Russian: голода́ть
- Spanish: morir de hambre
- French: mourir de faim, crever de faim, crever la dalle
- Portuguese: estar morrendo de fome, estar faminto
- Russian: проголода́ться
- French: affamer
- German: verhungern lassen, aushungern
- Portuguese: esfomear
- Russian: мори́ть голод
- Spanish: hambrear
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