STARVE

starve

Verb

  1. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  2. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  3. To be very hungry.
    Hey, ma, I'm starving!
  4. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food
  5. To deprive of nourishment.
    They starved the child until it withered away.
  6. To kill with cold.
    I was half starved waiting out in that wind.


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