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.