starve
starve
/stɑːv/
1 intransitive, transitive to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make somebody suffer or die in this way The animals were left to starve to death.
pictures of starving children
The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve!
starve somebody/yourself She's starving herself to try to lose weight.
Many of the prisoners looked half starved.
He locked them in a room and left them to starve.
She refused food and literally starved herself to death.
The poor cat was half starved.
Their policies will leave innocent children starving in the streets.
Collocations
adverb
verb + starve
preposition
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of
phrases
be half starved
keep somebody from starving
starve in the streets…
2 -starved (in adjectives) not having something that you need
supply-starved rebels
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Word Origin
Old English steorfan ‘to die’, of Germanic origin, probably from a base meaning ‘be rigid’ (compare with stare); related to Dutch sterven and German sterben.
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