See Also: starve(medicine)
starve(dictionary)
starve(dictionary)

starve (oh)



[Language: Old English; Origin: steorfan 'to die']
[I] to suffer or die because you do not have enough to eat
::Thousands of people will starve if food doesn't reach the city.
::pictures of starving children
::They'll either die from the cold or starve to death (=die from lack of food) .
[T] to prevent someone from having enough food to live
::The poor dog looked like it had been starved.
be starving
also be starved AmE to be very hungry
::You must be starving!
starve of [starve sb/sth of sth] phr v
to not give something that is needed
::The schools are starved of funding.
::The poor kid's just starved for attention.
starve out [starve sb ¡û¡ú out] phr v
to force someone to leave a place by preventing them from getting food
::If we can't blast them out, we'll starve them out!