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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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   What does starved mean?

   • Get a quick, free translation! STARVED definition: 1. very hungry 2. dangerously thin: 3. to not have enough of something that is needed: . Learn more.

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   What does starving mean in English?

   • , starved, starv·ing. to die or perish from lack of food or nourishment. to be in the process of perishing or suffering severely from hunger. to suffer from extreme poverty and need. The child was starving for affection. Chiefly British Dialect. to perish or suffer extremely from cold. Obsolete. to die. , starved, starv·ing.

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   How do you describe a starving person?

   • 1. die from lack of food, die from malnourishment A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. 2. deprive, strip, rob, dispossess, divest The electricity industry is not the only one to be starved of investment. People were literally starving → Les gens mouraient littéralement de faim. I'm starving! ( fam) → sto morendo di fame!

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   What does starved for affection mean?

   • Claire was starved for affection. v. To cause someone or something to suffer from lack of something. Used in the passive: The dog was starved for attention. The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs. Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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   supply-starved rebels see also cash-starved 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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   starve: 1 v die of food deprivation “The political prisoners starved to death” Synonyms: famish Type of: buy the farm , cash in one's chips , choke , conk , croak , decease , die , drop dead , exit , expire , give-up the ghost , go , kick the bucket , pass , pass away , perish , pop off , snuff it pass from physical life and lose all bodily ...