What does starve mean?

Definitions for starve
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Princeton's WordNet

  1. starve, hunger, famishverb

    be hungry; go without food

    "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

  2. starve, famishverb

    die of food deprivation

    "The political prisoners starved to death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

  3. starve, famishverb

    deprive of food

    "They starved the prisoners"

  4. crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lustverb

    have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

  5. starveverb

    deprive of a necessity and cause suffering

    "he is starving her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Wiktionary

  1. starveverb

    To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.

  2. starveverb

    To die because of lack of food or of not eating.

  3. starveverb

    To be very hungry.

    Hey, ma, I'm starving!

  4. starveverb

    To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food

  5. starveverb

    To deprive of nourishment.

    They starved the child until it withered away.

  6. starveverb

    To kill with cold.

    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.

  7. Etymology: From sterven, from steorfan. Cognate with staarven, Dutch sterven, German sterben, Albanian shterp.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. To Starveverb

    I cannot blame his cousin king,
    That wish’d him on the barren mountains starv’d. William Shakespeare.

    Hunger and thirst, or guns and swords,
    Give the same death in different words:
    To push this argument no further,
    To starve a man in law is murther. Matthew Prior.

    If they had died through fasting, when meat was at hand, they would have been guilty of starving themselves. Alexander Pope.

    Thy desires
    Are wolfish, bloody, starv’d, and ravenous. William Shakespeare.

    He would have worn her out by slow degrees,
    As men by fasting starve th’ untam’d disease. Dryden.

    Attalus endeavoured to starve Italy, by stopping their convoy of provisions from Africa. John Arbuthnot, on Coins.

    From beds of raging fire to starve in ice
    Their soft ethereal warmth, and there to pine
    Immoveable, infix’d, and frozen round. John Milton, Par. Lost.

    The powers of their minds are starved by disuse, and have lost that reach and strength which nature fitted them to receive. John Locke.

  2. To STARVEverb

    Etymology: stearfan , Saxon; sterven, Dutch, to die.

    To her came message of the murderment,
    Wherein her guiltless friends should hopeless starve. Edward Fairfax.

    Were the pains of honest industry, and of starving with hunger and cold, set before us, no body would doubt which to chuse. John Locke.

    An animal that starves of hunger, dies feverish and delirious. Arbuthnot.

    Have I seen the naked starve for cold,
    While avarice my charity controll’d? George Sandys.

    Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed:
    What then! Is the reward of virtue bread? Alexander Pope.

    Had the seeds of the pepper-plant been born from Java to these northern countries, they must have starved for want of sun. John Woodward, Natural History.

ChatGPT

  1. starve

    To starve generally means to suffer from extreme or prolonged lack of food, leading to severe hunger or malnutrition. It could also refer to depriving someone or something of a vital element, resource or condition necessary for survival or healthy function.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Starveverb

    to die; to perish

  2. Starveverb

    to perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent

  3. Starveverb

    to perish or die with cold

  4. Starveverb

    to destroy with cold

  5. Starveverb

    to kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is, in law, murder

  6. Starveverb

    to distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison into a surrender

  7. Starveverb

    to destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by depriving them of proper light and air

  8. Starveverb

    to deprive of force or vigor; to disable

  9. Etymology: [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D. sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Starve

    stärv, v.i. to die of hunger or cold: to suffer extreme hunger or want: to be in want of anything necessary, to deteriorate for want of anything essential.—v.t. to kill with hunger or cold: to destroy by want: to deprive of power.—n. Starvā′tion, act of starving: state of being starved.—adj. Starve′ling, hungry: lean: weak.—n. a thin, weak, pining animal or plant. [A.S. steorfan, to die; Dut. sterven, Ger. sterben, to die.]

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Anagrams for starve »

  1. traves

  2. vaster

  3. averts

  4. versta

  5. tavers

  6. staver

  7. strave

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of starve in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of starve in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of starve in a Sentence

  1. Toby Daly-Engel:

    If the sharks disappear, the little fish explode in population, because nothings eating them, pretty soon, their food plankton, microorganisms, little shrimps all of that is gone, so all the little fish ultimately starve.

  2. Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe:

    It's critical that we don't starve them of vehicles.

  3. Donald Trump:

    They want our people to starve -- they're taking our business away. They've taken our jobs away.

  4. Yvonne DeBurgo:

    I think the government thinks that we should just either starve to death or freeze to death.

  5. Kim Do-hoon:

    Kim Jong Un has been promoting the fisheries, which could explain why there are more fishing boats going out, but North Korean boats perform really poorly, with bad engines, risking lives to go far to catch more. Sometimes they drift and fishermen starve to death.

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  • مات جوعًاArabic
  • галадацьBelarusian
  • гладувамBulgarian
  • hladovětCzech
  • llwguWelsh
  • verhungern, aushungernGerman
  • [[kuolla]] [[nälkä, nääntyä, nälkä, näännyttää, nälkiinnyttääFinnish
  • svøltaFaroese
  • être affamé, [[mourir]] de [[faim]], affamerFrench
  • éheztet, éhenhal, éhezikHungarian
  • 飢えさせる, 飢える, 餓死Japanese
  • 굶어죽다Korean
  • whakapuango, whakatikiMāori
  • rammelen, verhongeren, uithongeren, [[sterven]] [[van]] [[de]] [[honger]]Dutch
  • głodowaćPolish
  • esfomear, morrer, morrendo, faminto, estar, fome, dePortuguese
  • изголодаться, голодать, [[умирать]] [[от]] [[голод, проголодаться, чахнуть, [[морить]] [[голодRussian
  • hladovaťSlovak
  • stradatiSlovene
  • svälta, svulten, utsvultenSwedish
  • ఘోరకలి, ఆకలిచావు, చప్పిడికూడుTelugu
  • голодуватиUkrainian

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