starve

IPA: stˈɑrv

(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.

Examples of "starve" in Sentences

If you want to see your people starve, that is your own business.
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.