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Definition of Starve

1. Verb. Be hungry; go without food. "Let's eat--I'm starving!"

2. Verb. Die of food deprivation. "Many famished in the countryside during the drought"

3. Verb. Deprive of food. "They starved the prisoners"

4. Verb. Have a craving, appetite, or great desire for. "They starve more bread"

5. Verb. Deprive of a necessity and cause suffering. ; "The engine was starved of fuel"

Definition of Starve

1. v. i. To die; to perish.

2. v. t. To destroy with cold.

Definition of Starve

1. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away. ¹

2. Verb. (intransitive) To die because of lack of food or of not eating. ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive) To be very hungry. ¹

4. Verb. (transitive) To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food ¹

5. Verb. (transitive) To deprive of nourishment. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive British especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Starve

1. to die from lack of food [v STARVED, STARVING, STARVES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Starve

startlers startles startling startlingly startlish startly starts starts up startsy startup

startupper startups starvation starvation acidosis starvations starve (current term) starved starved aster starvedly starveling

starvelings starven starver starvers starves starving starvings starward starwards starwort

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