starve
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verb- 1.
(intransitive)To die because of lack of food or of not eating.
- 2.
(intransitive)To suffer severely because of lack of food or of not eating.
- 3.
(intransitive)To be very hungry.
I was starving so I wrote S.O.S. on the desert island using rocks.
- 4.
(transitive)To kill or attempt to kill by depriving of food.
- 5.
(transitive)To make suffer severely by depriving of food.
Đồng nghĩa: famish
- 6.
(transitive)To force a combatant to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in a targeted siege.
If they refuse to surrender the garrison, we'll just starve them out.
- 7.
(dated, transitive)To force a population center to submit or surrender by depriving of food, as in sieges in international armed conflicts.
Some historians have since classified the Siege of Leningrad as a genocide due to the intentional destruction of the city and the systematic starvation of its civilian population.
- 8.
(transitive)To deprive of nourishment or of some vital component.
The uncaring parents starved the child of love.
The patient’s brain was starved of oxygen.
- 9.
(intransitive)To deteriorate for want of any essential thing.
- 10.
(British, transitive)(transitive, British, especially Yorkshire and Lancashire) To kill with cold; to (cause to) die from cold.
I was half starved waiting out in that wind.
- 11.
(intransitive, obsolete)To die; in later use especially to die slowly, waste away.
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From Middle English sterven (to die, perish), from Old English steorfan (to die, perish), from *sterban, from Proto-Germanic *sterbaną (to become stiff, die), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)terp- (to lose strength, become numb, be motionless); or from Proto-Indo-European *sterbʰ- (to become stiff), from *ster- (stiff); or a conflation of the aforementioned.