starve
IPA: stˈɑrv
verb
- (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- (intransitive) To be very hungry.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- (transitive, Britain, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
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Examples of "starve" in Sentences
- People starve in the land of the free.
- The Starve Creek is a river of the Bahamas.
- The horses used by the Europeans would starve.
- He starves to death due to an insatiable hunger.
- The goal was to starve, exhaust and antagonise the recruits.
- If you want to see your people starve, that is your own business.
- The Japanese confiscated the grain and rice and the population starved.
- What, have you no compunctions at that word starve? no bitter, dreadful recollections?
- Regime change against dictators who let their people starve is now considered to be unacceptable.
- Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images f the starving kids in Africa.
- Seeing children starve is terrible, I guess we all saw those images of the starving kids in Africa.
- And the next time you run out of dog food and couldn't possibly be moved to drive to the market or "starve" your dog?
- Today's "debt crisis" is the culmination of the long-term "starve the beast" strategy from an organized corporate-conservative movement.
- The change is from emphasizing balanced budgets - or at least lower deficits - to what tax-cutting conservatives have called "starve the beast," that is, cut taxes and force government to shrink.
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