starve at CMU American English spelling Of Explained:
[stɑ:v]
starve at English => English (English Etymology) Of Explained:
O.E. steorfan "to die," from P.Gmc. *sterban "be stiff." The sense narrowed to "die of cold" 12c.; the sense of "to kill with hunger" is first recorded 1530. Ger. cognate sterben retains the original sense of the word. ///
starve at English => English (Longman) Of Explained:
S3 v [Language: Old English; Origin: steorfan 'to die']//
1 [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) .//
2 [T] to prevent someone from having enough food to live: --The poor dog looked like it had been starved.//
3 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 → 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!//
starve at English => English (Moby Thesaurus II) Of Explained:
74 Moby Thesaurus words for "starve":
OD, annihilate, asphyxiate, be in want, be killed, be pinched,
be poor, be ravenous, begrudge, bereave of life, carry away,
carry off, chloroform, choke, cut down, cut off, deprive of life,
destroy, dispatch, dispose of, do away with, do for, do to death,
drown, end, execute, exterminate, eye hungrily, famish,
feel hungry, finish, finish off, go on welfare, grudge,
have a tapeworm, hunger, hunger for, immolate, kill, lack,
launch into eternity, liquidate, live upon nothing, lynch,
make away with, martyr, martyrize, need, pinch, pinch pennies,
poison, purge, put away, put down, put to death, put to sleep,
raven, remove from life, sacrifice, scamp, scant, screw, scrimp,
skimp, slay, smother, stint, strangle, suffocate, take life,
take off, thirst, thirst for, want
starve at English => English (English Thesaurus) Of Explained:
[V] (Poverty): be poor, want, lack, starve, live from hand to mouth.
[V] (Fasting): fast, starve, diet, famish.
[ADJ] (Fasting): famished, starved, fasting, hungry.
starve at English => English (Oxford Advanced Learners) Of Explained:
verb
1 to suffer or die because you do not have enough food to eat; to make sb suffer or die in this way:
[V] The animals were left to starve to death. * pictures of starving children * The new job doesn't pay as much but we won't starve! * [VN] She's starving herself to try to lose weight. * Many of the prisoners looked half starved.
2 (-starved) (in adjectives) not having sth that you need:
supply-starved rebels
see also CASH-STARVED
IDIOMS
be starving (for sth) (also be starved especially in AmE) (informal) to feel very hungry:
When's food? I'm starving!
PHRASAL VERBS
starve sb into sth / into doing sth to force sb to do sth by not allowing them to get any food or money:
The blockade was aimed at starving the country into submission.
starve sb/sth of sth (AmE also starve sb/sth for sth) [usually passive] to not give sth that is needed:
I felt starved of intelligent conversation. * The department has been starved of resources.
starve sb<->out (of sth) to force sb to leave a particular building or area by not allowing them to get any food:
If they won't come out, we'll starve them out!
Starve at English => English (Websters 1913) Of Explained:
Starve \Starve\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Starved}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Starving}.] [OE. sterven to die, AS. steorfan; akin to D.
sterven, G. sterben, OHG. sterban, Icel. starf labor, toil.]
1. To die; to perish. [Obs., except in the sense of perishing
with cold or hunger.] --Lydgate.
In hot coals he hath himself raked . . . Thus
starved this worthy mighty Hercules. --Chaucer.
2. To perish with hunger; to suffer extreme hunger or want;
to be very indigent.
Sometimes virtue starves, while vice is fed. --Pope.
3. To perish or die with cold. --Spenser.
Have I seen the naked starve for cold? --Sandys.
Starving with cold as well as hunger. --W. Irving.
Note: In this sense, still common in England, but rarely used
of the United States.
Starve \Starve\, v. t.
1. To destroy with cold. [Eng.]
From beds of raging fire, to starve in ice Their
soft ethereal warmth. --Milton.
2. To kill with hunger; as, maliciously to starve a man is,
in law, murder.
3. To distress or subdue by famine; as, to starvea garrison
into a surrender.
Attalus endeavored to starve Italy by stopping their
convoy of provisions from Africa. --Arbuthnot.
4. To destroy by want of any kind; as, to starve plans by
depriving them of proper light and air.
5. To deprive of force or vigor; to disable.
The pens of historians, writing thereof, seemed
starved for matter in an age so fruitful of
memorable actions. --Fuller.
The powers of their minds are starved by disuse.
--Locke.
starve at English => English (WordNet) Of Explained:
starve
v 1: be hungry; go without food; "Let's eat--I'm starving!" [syn:
{hunger}, {famish}] [ant: {be full}]
2: die of food deprivation; "The political prisoners starved to
death"; "Many famished in the countryside during the
drought" [syn: {famish}]
3: deprive of food; "They starved the prisoners" [syn: {famish}]
[ant: {feed}]
4: have a craving, appetite, or great desire for [syn: {crave},
{hunger}, {thirst}, {lust}]
5: deprive of a necessity and cause suffering; "he is starving
her of love"; "The engine was starved of fuel"
starve at English (WD) Of Explained:
==English==
Inter: wikipedi » a
Etymology
From Inter: etyl » enm Inter: term » sterven|lang=enm, from Inter: etyl » ang Inter: term » steorfan|lang=ang. Cognate with Inter: etyl » nds|- Inter: term » staarven|lang=nds, Dutch Inter: term » sterven|lang=nl, German Inter: term » sterben|lang=de, Albanian Inter: term » shterp||sterile, unproductive, barren land|lang=sq.Pronunciation
* Inter: a » British Inter: IPA » /stɑː(ɹ)v/, Inter: X-SAMPA » /stA:(r)v/- Inter: rhymes » ɑː(r)v
- Inter: audio » en-us-starve.ogg|Audio (US)
Verb
Inter: en-verb » starves|starving|starved|starved or rarely storven
Translations
Inter: trans-top » obsolete: to dieInter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » to die because of lack of food
- Arabic: Inter: t- » ar|مات جوعا|tr=Mata jaw-3an|sc=Arab
- Chinese:
- : Mandarin: Inter: t » cmn|饿死|sc=Hani
- Dutch: verhongeren, sterven van de honger
- Faroese: Inter: t- » fo|svølta
- Finnish: Inter: t- » fi|nääntyä (Inter: t+ » fi|nälkä|alt=nälkään), kuolla nälkään
- French: mourir de faim
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » to be very hungry
- Dutch: rammelen/sterven van de honger
- Finnish: kuolla nälkään
- French: être affamé
- Hungarian: Inter: t- » hu|éhezik
- Japanese: Inter: t- » ja|飢える|tr=ueru|sc=Jpan
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » to destroy by deprivation
- Faroese: Inter: t- » fo|svølta
- Finnish: Inter: t- » fi|näännyttää, Inter: t- » fi|nälkiinnyttää
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: trans-top » to deprive of nourishment
- Dutch: uithongeren
- Finnish: Inter: t- » fi|näännyttää
- Hungarian: Inter: t- » hu|éheztet
- Japanese: Inter: t- » ja|飢えさせる|tr=uesaseru|sc=Jpan
Inter: trans-mi » d
Inter: trans-botto » m
Inter: checktrans-top » |
- French: Inter: t+ » fr|affamer
- Telugu: Inter: t+ » te|పస్తు|tr=pastu
Inter: trans-botto » m
Derived terms
* starvationAnagrams
* avertsCategory: Category:English ergative verbs -
Translation: cy » starve
Translation: de » starve
Translation: et » starve
Translation: es » starve
Translation: fa » starve
Translation: fr » starve
Translation: ko » starve
Translation: hr » starve
Translation: io » starve
Translation: kn » starve
Translation: hu » starve
Translation: mg » starve
Translation: ml » starve
Translation: my » starve
Translation: ja » starve
Translation: pl » starve
Category: simple:starve -
Translation: fi » starve
Translation: sv » starve
Translation: ta » starve
Translation: te » starve
Translation: vi » starve
Translation: zh » starve