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   Starve

   /stärv/

   

   verb

   • 1. (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger: "she left her animals to starve"
   • ▪ cause (a person or animal) to suffer severely or die from hunger: "for a while she had considered starving herself"
   • ▪ feel very hungry: informal "I don't know about you, but I'm starving"
   • ▪ force someone out of a place or into a specified state by stopping supplies of food: "the Royalists were starved out after eleven days"
   • ▪ deprive of something necessary: "the arts are being starved of funds"
   • 2. be freezing cold: archaic, dialect "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"

   Word Origin Old Englishsteorfan ‘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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