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verb
- 1. (of a person or animal) suffer severely or die from hunger: "she left her animals to starve"
- 2. be freezing cold: archaic, dialect "pull down that window for we are perfectly starving here"
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The meaning of STARVE is to perish from lack of food. How to use starve in a sentence.
STARVE definition: 1. to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: 2. to…. Learn more.
verb (used with object) , starved, starv·ing. to cause to starve; kill, weaken, or reduce by lack of food. to subdue, or force to some condition or action, by hunger: to starve a besieged garrison into a surrender. to cause to suffer for lack of something needed or craved.
The verb starve means suffering or death caused by a lack of food, though people also use it as a dramatic way to say they are hungry, as in, "If we don't start cooking dinner now, I think I'll starve." The word starve has origins in the Old English word steorfan, meaning “to die.”
STARVE meaning: 1. to (cause someone to) become very weak or die because there is not enough food to eat: 2. to…. Learn more.
1. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food. 2. Informal To be hungry. 3. To suffer from deprivation: a puppy starving for attention. 4. Archaic To suffer or die from cold. v.tr. 1. To cause to starve. 2. To force to a specified state by starving: starved the town into submission.
STARVE definition: to become sick or die because you do not have enough food, or to make someone sick or die because…. Learn more.
Definition of starve verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
1.verb. If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food, which sometimes leads to their death. A number of the prisoners we saw are starving. [VERB] In the 1930s, millions starved to death or were deported. [VERB + to] Getting food to starving people does nothing to stop the war. [VERB -ing]
STARVE meaning: 1 : to suffer or die from lack of food to suffer extreme hunger; 2 : to cause (a person or animal) to suffer or die because of lack of food.
