to starve
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3.0
- verb
- /stɑrv/
:
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- Then they squeezed us and starved us until we had to surrender.
- beaten and starved
And when they get starved out, there's an opportunity.
- And when they get starved out, there's an opportunity.
- Either we bomb these people or we starve them with sanctions.
- Then you can starve them a little bit or starve them and they live about two weeks.
- The problem is because you're removing all of this prebiotic substrate, you're starving those bacteria.
Examples
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You can starve on your own.
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We have friends who practically starved, working for a family in the country.
Academic text (1992) -
But we are not gonna starve thanks to you.
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Germany believed Britain was trying to starve them anyhow.
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My kid's starving to death.
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If I go home safe to my bed, someone else will be starving and a promise will be broken.
Fiction book (1997) -
But by day 4, we were starving.
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You're starving to death in a prison.
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His people starve while he sits at banquet.
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The villagers were afraid they would starve during the harsh winter without enough food.
Synonyms
1
8.5
To make someone or something very weak by not giving food
To give too little food to a person, animal, or plant
Antonyms
How Deprived
Surface Forms
Etymology
Starve comes from an old English word steorfan that meant 'to die'. Because of that, people also used starve to mean 'cause to die', so to starve someone is to deprive them of food until they become very hungry or may die.