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Definition of Sterve
1. v. t. & i. To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.
Definition of Sterve
1. to starve [v STERVED, STERVING, STERVES] - See also: starve
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sterve
Literary usage of Sterve
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... at thy large of prison free, More than is min, that sterve here in a cage.
And art a lord, gret is thin avantage, For I may wepe and ..."
2. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"... Ye, sterve he shal, and that in lassé while 865 Than thou wolt goon a-paas
nat but a mile; .... sterve ..."
3. The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer by Geoffrey Chaucer (1898)
"And whether that he live or elles sterve '. But, for al that that evere I may
deserve, Refuse it not ! ' quod he, and henle her faste, And in her bosom doun ..."
4. A Middle English Reader by Oliver Farrar Emerson (1915)
"... panne ne is libbe bote sterve, and bet is zob ase paternoster ... an haste
J>ou begonne to sterve; and al bin elde, and al bine time bet ys ..."
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