Starve

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  • intransitive verb. To suffer or die from extreme or prolonged lack of food.
  • intransitive verb. To be hungry.
  • intransitive verb. To suffer from deprivation.
  • intransitive verb. To suffer or die from cold.
  • intransitive verb. To cause to starve.
  • intransitive verb. To force to a specified state by starving.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To die; perish.
  • Specifically To perish from lack of food or nourishment; die of hunger; also, to suffer from lack of food; pine with hunger; famish; suffer extreme poverty.
  • To perish with cold; die from cold or exposure; suffer from cold.
  • To suffer for lack of anything that is needed or much desired; suffer mental or spiritual want; pine.
  • To cause to perish with hunger; afflict or distress with hunger; famish; hence, to kill, subdue, or bring to terms by withholding food or by the cutting off of supplies: as, to starve a garrison into surrender.
  • To cause to perish with cold; distress or affect severely with cold; benumb utterly; chill.
  • To cause to perish through lack of any kind; deprive of life, vigor, or force through want; exhaust; stunt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To die; to perish.
  • intransitive verb. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want; to be very indigent.
  • intransitive verb. To perish or die with cold.
  • transitive verb. To destroy with cold.
  • transitive verb. To kill with hunger.
  • transitive verb. To distress or subdue by famine.
  • transitive verb. To destroy by want of any kind.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
  • verb. To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
  • verb. To be very hungry.
  • verb. To destroy, make capitulate or at least make suffer by deprivation, notably of food
  • verb. To deprive of nourishment.
  • verb. To kill with cold.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  • verb. be hungry; go without food
  • verb. die of food deprivation
  • verb. deprive of food
  • verb. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering
  • Word Usage
    "Today's "debt crisis" is the culmination of the long-term "starve the beast" strategy from an organized corporate-conservative movement."
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